Was here to post something along this line. The only place in which I'm (hopefully) in contact with the Rust community is here. What do I see all the time?

- "rewrite it in Rust" kind of posts on a lot of threads

- upvoting Rust mildly or not interesting projects just because there are written in Rust

- down voting every comment that even slightly criticize Rust (this comment will be gray when you'll read it) or remind that code safety exists in VM language for decades

I am _very_ productive in GC languages. I use F# and C# all the time, and the code runs fast, everywhere. And I don't have to worry about memory, and don't have to learn a wacky syntax and wait for hours for a "borrow checker" to complete its static analysis.

> and wait for hours for a "borrow checker" to complete its static analysis.

The borrow checker is actually fast, the part where you wait for hours is the code generation. There is nowadays also a "cargo check" command which stops before the code generation, which you can use when you want only to see if it would compile without errors (without waiting for it to actually compile).