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Why is being mad about Rust so often correlated with reactionary opinions?
Rust excited a lot of younger developers because it lacked decades of tech debt and has safety features built into the language. Those younger developers leaned more progressive, many of them being trans, and there are relatively fewer Rust communities full of bigots.
So it's a combination of multiple things, I think. The first being an unwillingness of older and more conservative developers to give in to the new technology that is coming for their favorite crusty old tools. The enthusiasm of the younger crowd wanting to use Rust in any and all cases, sometimes where it doesn't really make sense, greatly annoys them.
The second is the obvious support of the overall Rust community for groups of people they don't like.
And the last, also relevant here, is a difference of opinion on "Use Rust and do something right the first time, but (sometimes a lot) slower" vs. "Use Python or Java and do things (a lot) quicker, but relatively less efficiently".
There are legitimate criticisms of Rust (bundling, substantial difficulty in dynamic linking), but those criticisms are not coming across the fence from Python land.
And the last ties in with liberals' (both neo- and reactionary) adherence to capitalism, in that the latter quick-term profit-seeking is the default method for corporations. Write everything in Javascript (like Electron) for the cheap labor or Python for the wealth of pre-cooked packages that do most of the work for you.
Its a labor issue between older, established and predominantly male C++ devs and newer, more diverse Rust devs. Like DoD contracts are now mandating "memory safety". Real shit. C++ is the language you learn if you get a CS Engineering degree. Those departments tend to be crawling with 4channers, who see all of the effort that Rust put into documentation, tooling, detailed error messages, and CoC's as gay.
There's a pretty good paper "A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design" which highlights more on this. I have the PDF but idk his to share it.
PieFED is not an example of this though. Actually its the opposite. Python users tend to be academics, like chemists, who only need it to crunch some data. Its literally just because its too hard for them and they have more important stuff to do. Which is clearly the case here.