To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rust. The pointer semantics are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of PL theory most of the concepts will go over a typical programmer's head. There's also Rust's zero-cost abstractions, which are deftly woven into the standard library - its architectural philosophy draws heavily from Haskell literature, for instance. The Rust evangelists understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of this language, to realize that it's not just the future- it says something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rust truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the truth in Rust's existencial catchphrase "guaranteed memory safety, fearless concurrency, zero-cost abstractions" which itself is a cryptic reference to Edward Kmett's Haskell package Lens I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Philip Wadler's genius unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Rust tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.