Yeah this whole blog is sus. Author claims to have been around for 17 years, doesn't have a single project of note and makes naive claims. Github history has thousands of commits per year every single day to private repos, yet very little public code or record to offer credibility. Not clear where they work or what they work on. Makes inflammatory claims about hot-topic languages. Throws up ads on the blog. Personally posts blog to HN on a relatively new account, rather than it organically finding its way here. Sorry I'm not buying it.

He seems to know what he's doing, from the author's Twitter:

  Post something slightly mentioning rust in r/cpp, Rust evangelists show up, post something slightly mentioning rust in r/zig, Rust evangelists show up. How is this not a cult?

> Author claims to have been around for 17 years, doesn't have a single project of note and makes naive claims.

Plenty of such people out there.

This guy appears to just personally dislike Rust for reasons undisclosed and tries to rationalize it via posts like this one.

It's like with this former coworker of my former coworker who was really argumentative, seemingly for the sake of it. I did some digging and found that his ex left him and is now happily married.

Turns out that when he was criticizing the use of if-else in Angular templates what he was really thinking about was "if someone else".

What you’ve described there is a 90% match for most people in tech.