> "Popularity is the only thing that matters, and Rust is not popular enough."

This is unfair to the article, when the actual focus is on finding a job and paying the bills.

It doesn't have any of moral bankrupcy of the "Nobody gets fired for IBM" situation, where we'd be enabling corrupt companies because everyone else is also turning a blind eye.

If the post had just been "I'm doing C++ instead of Rust because I could find a C++ job but not a Rust job", that would have been totally reasonable and I would not have said anything. But that was not what the rant was saying—otherwise it would have been boring and not made it to HN and /r/rust.