alt Hacker NewsIt’s like that joke: I admire Jesus Christ, it’s his fan club I really can’t stand.
You can substitute that with Rust and it sums up my feelings. The language is great, the obsession with static typing and memory safety from its fans, as if it’s the panacea to all problems in computing, is obnoxious and smells of inexperience. It’s not a coincidence that Rust these days is baby’s first low level language, so you get a lot of strong, uninformed opinions on software design.
Ghandi wasn't making a joke when he said: "I love your Christ but I hate your Christians because your Christians are unlike your Christ.". By this time Ghandi had spent some time reading about Jesus, and interacting with Christians and so this contrast will have been very stark.