The original article is just as inflammatory as its top comment if you’ve read it:

> In 2017, I said that “asynchronous Rust programming is a disaster and a mess”. In 2021 a lot more of the Rust ecosystem has become asynchronous – such that it might be appropriate to just say that Rust programming is now a disaster and a mess. As someone who used to really love Rust, this makes me quite sad.

I imagine withoutboats read both and was pretty upset.

I'm less comfortable projecting my own opinions into the head of 'withoutboats than you are. The author of the comment they responded to and the author of this post are not the same person.