People are downvoting you because you're writing things that are:
- factually wrong (revealing you don't know very basic info about Rust)
- anecdotal
- inflammatory (as you yourself admit when you say your comments were "crude")
It's not that people are being fanboys. I see lots of non-downvoted comments about not wanting to use Rust. Look at any HN thread about Zig, and you'll see a ton of non-grey comments that say Zig is better or that modern C/C++ don't need replacing.
If you want to sincerely debate Rust, you should learn the basics (for example, understanding how it's intended to reuse the C ecosystem, not "throw it away"); stop insulting other people in the thread (e.g. saying that using Rust is "playing with toys"); and acknowledging that it's not intended to appeal to anyone who thinks they're able to perfectly manage memory in C/C++ without any mistakes.
On that last point: no one with a lot of experience in C/C++ thinks it's possible to manage memory in those languages without dangerous bugs, and increasingly people think adopting a new language (Rust) is a good trade-off for avoiding whole classes of memory bugs.
The thing is that your tone doesn't seem to come across a genuinely interested. It seems like you're just throwing uninformed opinions at people without leaving an opening for discussion.
For example, you talk about not wanting to throw away the C ecosystem. Instead, you could say, "What about all the great C libraries that we're never going to rewrite in Rust? Are Rust users throwing all that work away?"
And then someone would correctly inform you that the Rust community doesn't want to throw all that work away and has spent a ton of time on interop.
- factually wrong (revealing you don't know very basic info about Rust)
- anecdotal
- inflammatory (as you yourself admit when you say your comments were "crude")
It's not that people are being fanboys. I see lots of non-downvoted comments about not wanting to use Rust. Look at any HN thread about Zig, and you'll see a ton of non-grey comments that say Zig is better or that modern C/C++ don't need replacing.
If you want to sincerely debate Rust, you should learn the basics (for example, understanding how it's intended to reuse the C ecosystem, not "throw it away"); stop insulting other people in the thread (e.g. saying that using Rust is "playing with toys"); and acknowledging that it's not intended to appeal to anyone who thinks they're able to perfectly manage memory in C/C++ without any mistakes.
On that last point: no one with a lot of experience in C/C++ thinks it's possible to manage memory in those languages without dangerous bugs, and increasingly people think adopting a new language (Rust) is a good trade-off for avoiding whole classes of memory bugs.