Sometimes I think people like Lunduke, @bero , and @zeroability are overreacting to the wide adoption of Rust. And them some more news like this comes out……. Rust is basically like cheap plywood, requires no real skill to use and results in extremely subpar products.
Reading the comments about this on the internet is quite enlightening. A bunch of people with cat ear profiles are accusing Cloudfare of having skill issues. They are literally a cult.
LOL.
I’m sure the rust fanthings will declare that “Half the freakin’ internet is small price to pay for memory safety.”
From where I stand, the biggest problem with Rust is that it has no concept of shared libraries. Instead, all the libraries (“crates”) an application uses are pulled in and compiled as part of the application.
This results in a waste of space, and, more importantly, destroys the idea that if there’s a security bug in a library used by a lot of things (let’s say zlib), you just fix the zlib package and all applications are automatically fixed.
That makes Rust a HUGE security problem - and yet its acolytes claim that it is the answer to all security problems, when in fact it is the exact opposite.
Other than that, I don’t hate the language, most of its flaws are fixable. But before it supports and actually makes proper use of shared libraries, it is not ready to touch anything relevant, and Cloudflare will certainly not be the last disaster caused by Rust.
yep
ls .cargo/registry/cache/index.crates.io-*
observe the abominations.
As an addition, going by githut2.0’s last update for 2024:
It is not even that popular a language, the cult just make a lot of noise about it on the social medias and unofficial internet failure league tables.
it’s like stomping your feet to get attention. 
It’s almost like it’s a language specifically made to ask or tell people what to do, and reward them for not asking anyone else for help (except for AI and bots on the Fediverse). There is also no extending beyond the bounds of the compiler or their very strict datatype handling. The compiler installs guard rails to keep people from using any ingenuity or creative engineering. It’s The Rust Way or no way.
But isn’t that the plan?
Don’t think for yourself because thinking for yourself is dangerous. Asking questions is verboten! Sieg Heil! You must do as the elite leadership demands!
Exactly, Stay locked in your home, take this shot or lose your job, don’t ask us what it does, we don’t actually know, and we’re gonna lie to you about it anyway. And if you don’t take it the rabid internet hordes will hound you, calling you a traitor and murderer and threaten to murder you.
I know a nurse that got death threats when she when public that she refused to get the shot and lost her job because of it.
So, yer sayin’ it’s a cargo cult?
Sounds about right.