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> Can hardly blame people for talking about modern languages in a discussion about obsolete ones.

The point is that the issue does not involve people discussing "modern languages", just mindlessly shoehorning references to Rust into any discussion involving any application of a language which is not Rust.

I get Rust fanboys are excited about their hobby, but this sort of obsessive "when the only tool you have is a hammer" discussion is very tiring and fruitless, and only conveys a poor image of Rust's community.

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So, let me get this straight: We have a thread about a programming language (Java), then it gets compared to another programming language (C#), then it gets compared to a third one (C) and no one bats an eye. But when Rust is mentioned it's because of "fanboys". Yeah, sure.

> So, let me get this straight: We have a thread about a programming language (Java) (...)

No, you really don't. If you read the thread you're commenting on, you'll notice it's about C#.

The very first comment of the thread you're discussing in, and also the top post of this discussion, is, and I quote:

> It is quite interesting that most of the problems mentioned don't exist in recent version of C# on .NET Core, considering all the similarities of C# and Java. (...)

And somehow Rust fanboys parachute into the discussion to yet again talk about their hammer handling all nails and nail-like problems.

The thread I'm seeing is a top-level comment about C#, a reply that is on-topic and mentions Rust, and also assembly, Python, Hg, "scripting languages", and wasm.

Rust is exactly as relevant here as any of those other items, but people are getting really upset about the Rust mention.

I think in a discussion that already started by comparing different performance characteristics in different languages in a VCS, it's not at all out of line to bring up the fact that another VCS is being rewritten into any particular language. It seems to me that the anti-Rust sentiment is far more disruptive and off-topic here than the mention of Rust in the first place was.

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