Not only did you change the list of languages under discussion just now, you also included Go, which oblio specifically did not say would avoid discussions of Rust.

You’re moving the goalposts, and complaints about discussions of Rust tend to be far more annoying than the actual discussions. How dare people want to discuss related languages they enjoy? I mean, right?

Most language discussions will have people join in and discuss other languages.

I’ve spent quite a few words in this very thread discussing Go’s package manager! Should I apologize to someone? No... I think language discussions normally involve discussions of languages.

Go is frequently attacked by Rust evangelists because they feel, and they seem right, that Go is a programming language evolutionary dead end. It's a very practical language, so very popular, but based on programming language theory from 40 years ago, with a very low adoption of concepts from the last 2-3 decades.

The risk being that in 20 years we'll wake up to the Go fad and realize that many people had been writing mountains of already legacy code from day 1, 20 years before. And those mountains of legacy code will have to be maintained because nobody's going to throw away so much working code.

Both D and Zig are direct competitors for Rust so I don't understand the fuss. This tango goes both ways, it's just that there are fewer D or Zig evangelists out there, overall. But they do visit Rust threads, too ;-)

And that's not bad, cross pollination is good. Insularity is bad.