I was just thinking that we were overdue for a Fil-C post on HN.

Every one of these posts is the same. There's this weird blindness to the problems and imperfections in Fil-C --- just shouting down. It reduces my confidence in Fil-C as a whole.

Rust, for all its faults, at least engages with its critics. I've long faulted Rust's use of Result over exceptions, for example, but the maintainers at least acknowledge that other options exist and each has trade-offs. Not Pizlo and his fans.

To be clear, I like Fil-C. It's a practical implementation of something that should have existed a long time ago. And Pizlo is, in fact, a great programmer. It just rubs me the wrong way that he can't be content with having done excellent work --- he has to claim things that his system doesn't provide (like memory safety under data races --- minor fault, but still) and claim that other systems are worse in ways they are not (e.g. with respect to Rust having unsafe blocks).

Is genuine excellence not enough? Why must he persist in claiming a false perfection?