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>> With the danger of hurting HN Rust hipsters

They engaged in a rewrite, and they chose a modern language. These are orthogonal.

Even in academia, one sees a prevailing view that language choice is picking a brand of toilet seat. Others see language as one of the central questions of our evolving identity as a species. There are those in the middle, just trying to get work done, considering their language choices but not seeing that as fashion.

"hipsters" certainly tips one's hand.



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