Rust may, or may not, be the next best thing. However, the zealotry expressed by some rust pundits, is very off putting to me. One thing I have learned, is that zealotry is where moral compromise enters, it is where "for their own good" and "the ends justify the means" starts, followed by concepts such as "we need to force people to understand".

Some rust pundits seem to be such zealots, injecting rust commentary into everything. Almost religious.

Thus, I am not surprised by this. To speak ill of the holy relic, to utter dissent, drives zealots to mad excess!