OMFG..and in this day and age is soooooo much more important not to be sneered at by the "elite" then it is to have working code...
man do i miss the days when programming was about getting stuff working not worrying about the political and social impact of how your style was...
As you know, Real Programmers can write FORTRAN in any language.
But, do we want to?
No, we want to learn what is new and useful in a new language. We want to learn how to make best use of that language.
That doesn't mean writing code that looks just like the language we used before. What would be the point of using a new language, then?
No one cares what the "Rust elite" think. Didn't you see that that was just a humorous throwaway comment following a much more important point: writing idiomatic code.
Learning to write idiomatic code helps us see what is new and useful in any language.
We won't learn that by writing FORTRAN in the new language.
But seeing how experienced users write their code is a great way to see what is good and interesting about the language.
EDIT: not always, of course, but unless it's a one-off tool, it doesn't make a lot of sense to NOT be idiomatic.