How to counter erroneous criticism of Rust?

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In contrast, the Java chart implies nobody will be using it in around 5 years... well a man can dream :yum:

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"Rust is a cult," says the anti-Rust cult. You know it is a cult when some of these people take every interaction as evidence that the other group is bad. It is a large cult, with many members who do not know how to write Rust programs that compile.

It seems that three factors contribute greatly to people joining the anti-Rust cult:

  1. Rust is much harder to learn than more popular languages like Python, JS, or Java. Arrogance is a nice shield for incompetence.
  2. The anti-Rust cult is already large and produces enough content to fuel its members, a vicious cycle.
  3. Dramas around Rust and how it is often portrait as radically positive or negative on the medias.
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Please stop promoting the TIOBE Index. Its methodology is totally unscientific. Just look at how "popular" Delphi is on their chart. It is a meme at this point.

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This is the kind of thing we’ve been discouraging.

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