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His YT comment section is an experience. They're breeding a unique kind of right-wing, tinfoil hat Linux extremist, whose software usage is determined solely by esoteric association and "suspicious timing" like seeing widespread adoption during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The phoronix comment section is a garden of rationality and level-headed thinking in comparison.
Any time Rust is brought up in Phoronix, half of the comments are bad-faith idiots making strawmen and whataboutism arguments amounting to "skill issue, C is 300% safe and nobody needs better" and thinly-veiled contrarian antagonism against Rust because it's popular.
A comment section worse than that? Impressive.
The more I scrolled through the comments, the more I longed for the familiar comfort of the braindead phoronix forums. It's one thing to be convinced that C is the peak of programming language design (sometimes without having ever written a productive line of code), but it's another thing entirely to be convinced that Rust is some sort of figurative (or even literal) trojan horse pushed by a global woke conspiracy and/or connected to the "planned release" of COVID-19.
Thanks I didn't k ow that rust also had 5G microchips along with the jab. They really can get it into anything.