Sad that Rust advocates are not learning. This sort of comment is what drives people away from Rust. Stop ramming your stuff down other people's throats. Go build that exclusively Rust based Dropbox clone that outperforms Dropbox and show how well Rust performs in that situation.
Rust has trade-offs just like Go has trade-offs. Being honest about the deficiencies of ones chosen platform is a good thing, it helps to keep you sharp and to avoid problems associated with those deficiencies.
Besides having an over-zealous community that posts off-topic comments all over threads that have nothing to do with Rust, Rust has deficiencies too.
Note also that Dropbox is already using Rust in some places.
Not to condone the grandparent's zealotry, but the article does mention Rust by name, Dropbox is using Rust, and preventing data races is one of Rust's two raisons d'être. It's not off-topic in the least. There's no need to stoop to zealotry yourself in order to fight zealotry.
Is it off-topic though? Go has warts and is plagued by poor design decisions, just like most software. I think it is worth mentioning those, and offering recommendations that don't have those issues, so people can make the best technical decisions when choosing a stack for their projects. It also may help Go maintainers in fixing legitimate complaints in Go, thus making it better. I've never used Rust, but I have used Go, and found certain things about it unappealing, so I'm interested in this information, and I'm also interested in Go improving.
> Stop ramming your stuff down other people's throats.
Pointing out your preferred language addresses one of the hardest problems in another language qualifies as "ramming your stuff down other people's throats"?
Repeatedly, incessantly, whereever there is the slightest link yes, that qualifies as ramming down your stuff down other people's throats.
I really don't think I'm the only person noticing Rust fans being a little - to put it mildly - overzealous when it comes to this. I do not see the proponents of any other language doing the same thing.
Sad that Rust advocates are not learning. This sort of comment is what drives people away from Rust. Stop ramming your stuff down other people's throats. Go build that exclusively Rust based Dropbox clone that outperforms Dropbox and show how well Rust performs in that situation.
Rust has trade-offs just like Go has trade-offs. Being honest about the deficiencies of ones chosen platform is a good thing, it helps to keep you sharp and to avoid problems associated with those deficiencies.
Besides having an over-zealous community that posts off-topic comments all over threads that have nothing to do with Rust, Rust has deficiencies too.
Note also that Dropbox is already using Rust in some places.