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> Javascript is a legitimately bad language, and Rust is a legitimately good language.

Yeah, statements like these without even trying to back them up are pretty ridiculous.

Sometimes someone brings some stupid issue that's never a problem in practice, but most of the time people just admit they simply have no real experience with JS. They just love to claim how superior they are, and anyone who disagrees is "not paying attention".

FYI you are just showing how awful are communities around "legitimately good" languages.




I'm willing to back it up. I've written at length on these things before. But there seems little point when the person I was replying to has already pre-emptively dismissed any reason I could give.


> FYI you are just showing how awful are communities around "legitimately good" languages.

Just to let you know Rust's community is pretty cool and not awful at all. For instance the Rust Survey 2017 reports that 98.7% of respondents feel welcome within the Rust Community.

Furthermore according to the Stackoverflow 2017 survey, Rust is the "most loved" language.


Sure, I bet community is great otherwise, it is just occassional elitism (which I guess was inherited from the C++ community) that comes off as toxic.

Btw that same survey showed how people are quite fine with writing JS, which makes this entire thread seem even more ridiculous.




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