It's Josh Triplett, long time team member. It starts like this:
> First of all, thank you very much for taking the time to write this post. People who leave Rust usually don't write about the issues they have, and that's a huge problem for us, because it means we mostly hear from the people who had problems that weren't serious enough to drive them away. Thank you, seriously, for caring enough to explain the issues you had in detail.
This is a very different vibe than the one you're describing.
It's true that the Rust subreddit can brush criticism off, but that's also because there are a lot of low-quality criticisms of Rust, and seeing the same thing over and over again can be frustrating. But I've never seen a well thought out post that's critical get downvoted, they're often upvoted, and discussed in a very normal way.
That said, it's reddit, so there's always gonna be some garbage posts.
The fifth and eighth articles are explicitly negative about Rust. The seventh is about serious bugs in the Rust ecosystem.
Let's look at the top comment on the highest post: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1cdqdsi/lessons_learn...
It's Josh Triplett, long time team member. It starts like this:
> First of all, thank you very much for taking the time to write this post. People who leave Rust usually don't write about the issues they have, and that's a huge problem for us, because it means we mostly hear from the people who had problems that weren't serious enough to drive them away. Thank you, seriously, for caring enough to explain the issues you had in detail.
This is a very different vibe than the one you're describing.
It's true that the Rust subreddit can brush criticism off, but that's also because there are a lot of low-quality criticisms of Rust, and seeing the same thing over and over again can be frustrating. But I've never seen a well thought out post that's critical get downvoted, they're often upvoted, and discussed in a very normal way.
That said, it's reddit, so there's always gonna be some garbage posts.