I heard a PeerTuber I follow talk about controversy around “Rust” as a dangerous cult or something, but that she thinks people should put aside their “petty grievances” and focus more on what good the project will do for Linux. I’m out of the loop, but I think Rust is a programming language, right? Anyone know what this whole thing about a cult is? I want to be filled in on it, because it seems important.
I’m not sure about a full-on cult, but the people who push Rust push Rust REALLY, REALLY HARD. And they frame any opposition as “you just need to GET WITH THE TIMES!!!”.
Much like the Wayland people, and the systemd people.
Personally, that massively turns me off. Especially because when I tried rust, it tried to force us to use snake_case instead of camelCase in our OWN CODE, throwing up “style warnings”. That’s not okay.
It feels like they want to end style diversity, programming language diversity, want everything to be done Their Way because it’s Just Better and how dare people disagree.
(Python has similar “having your own style is frowned upon” culture problems, I think, but they don’t really do the same “we need to wipe out other programming languages!!” shit.)
So I’m against Rust myself, not for technical reasons, but because of that.
– Frost
Right, I see what you mean. That’s just a weird perspective to have. I know right now Kdenlive is pretty much the only FLOSS video editor, but if there were other comparable ones, imagine if I tore you to pieces over your choice to use the other one? For no reason? Damn.