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Up until very recently, the cult of rust was going - very - strong on lemmy. Things have somewhat normalized by now, but for a long time, any programming related topic was full off, often ill informed, takes why “rust should have been used for this” and similar things. The Rust community has generally been extremely toxic as well, not helping its reputation. Now that we are a few years in and various major Rust projects have had numerous embarrassing bugs reality has sunk in, but as these things go, the backlash will last longer on the internet than the hype ever has.
The internet would be a much quieter place if people were forced to have a minimal amount of insight into the topic they're posting about. I guess what really annoys me is when popular blogs like this one deliberately frame something they don't like in a way that makes it look worse to people who don't know any better. There are very few people calling this shit out, be it on lemmy or the comments of the article itself. They even lied about FL1 being "bullet-proof" and "unaffected" by this bug, when it clearly wasn't, according to Cloudflare - the primary source of this shitstain of an article.
I think my biggest gripe with the Culture of Rust is that they keep trying to force it into the Linux kernel and utilities, but even worse than that, they keep trying to replace things WITH DIFFERENT LICENSES. Ones with less system owner protections. Worse ones.
Putting aside the ideological discussion about software licenses, saying that "they" are forcing Rust into the Linux kernel is a bold claim when Linus Torvalds clearly doesn't mind the inclusion and even encourages it for example in driver code, at least as an experiment.