Tfa makes this argument too then later says:
> All this is to say: I write some Rust. I like it fine. If LLMs and Rust aren’t working for you, I feel you. But if that’s your whole thing, we’re not having the same argument
So reasonable people admit that the utility depends on the use case.. then at the same time say you must be an idiot if you aren’t using the tools. But.. this isn’t actually a reasonable position.
Part of the issue here may be that so many programmers have no idea what programmers do outside of their niche, and how diverse programming actually is.
The typical rebuttals of how “not everyone is doing cliche CRUD web dev” is just the beginning. Author mentions kernel dev, but then probably extrapolated to C dev in general. But that would be insane, just think about the training sets for Linux kernel dev vs everything else..
It’s dumb to have everyone double down on polarizing simplistic pro/con camps, and it’s rare to see people even asking “what kind of work are you trying to do” before the same old pro/con arguments start flying again.
