I will keep calling this attitude negative and disrespectful, because it's belittling other people's work, curiosity and experimentation.
A lot of the things being posted in HN are not products but rather small-to-mid-size programs written by (quite often) experienced developers trying out a new language and somehow managing to scratch theirs or someone else's itch. On top of that, they are learning and we as a community are also learning from their hits and their misses.
A lot of things, such as WASM frameworks, are heavily experimental, and in this very thread there is an example of an author of those saying they're back to working JS. This is fine.
I would be totally fine with comments like "Rust is not good for this" or "Go is not good for that", and I have given some examples myself above. But this is clearly not what's happening here. It's ok to not want to participate on something, but the vitriol and flamewar-bait on those topics is not that.
Well, I agree to all of that, I just don't read the same thing as you do in those critiques. To me, they do not sound like belittling authors who post here (frankly, of all languages that are used just because they are trendy, I much prefer that it's rust than any of the many runtime typed evaluated languages that used to be popular in the past).
To me the actual target of those critical comments are not the projects at hand but rather that trend in our industry to let popularity lead our decisions, and how easily we form small chapels that fight each others instead of encouraging learning and practicing several competing techs.
Not that it will change anything, though.
It's worse: the target is always the people, not even the projects. It would be fine if there were any actual criticism, but it's just name calling all the way.
And the top level comment about "cool kids" I answered to definitely doesn't have the nuance you suggest it has, nor does the flagged comment comparing it to a religion, or the comments calling people "hipsters". And this thread here is actually better than average.
A lot of the things being posted in HN are not products but rather small-to-mid-size programs written by (quite often) experienced developers trying out a new language and somehow managing to scratch theirs or someone else's itch. On top of that, they are learning and we as a community are also learning from their hits and their misses.
A lot of things, such as WASM frameworks, are heavily experimental, and in this very thread there is an example of an author of those saying they're back to working JS. This is fine.
I would be totally fine with comments like "Rust is not good for this" or "Go is not good for that", and I have given some examples myself above. But this is clearly not what's happening here. It's ok to not want to participate on something, but the vitriol and flamewar-bait on those topics is not that.