it's unfortunate that rust seems barely more than a compiler. it's... empty. the "ecosystem" feels like a namespace-free dogpile of college spring break experiments. a wasteland of pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha 0.0.0.0.0.1 stuff. it'll be 10 years before it improves to even being underwhelming.
in go, you can download it and have the pieces to actually do useful stuff right away. legit productivity. not to mention putting together graphs or graph-like structures and other similar things aren't the obtuse sphinx riddles they are in rust.
who is "esr" and why do you accuse them of such things?
edit: oh, the The Cathedral and the Bazaar dude. i saw a video about him that seemed to portray him well. but having found his blog... well... i can understand your sentiment.
why would someone think it was "compact disc"? even if a hn reader was somehow completely ignorant of continuous delivery, the context and usage should be a guide.
i'm inclined to think there is no such thing as a "free press". i'm also of a mind that even when one presumes such a thing exists, there's no reason to believe that this leads to "truth" or "reliability" in reporting.
i hope there's a third way between corporate news and government news.