Out of curiosity since I don't follow Rust.

Why/how are they toxic?

Not trying to stoke arguments, just a curious person thinking of learning Rust for fun with less drama.

I find Golang community to be less opinionated and just chill + pumping out libs, modules, projects, products. I like that. Less drama more output.

But I'm curious to pick on Rust as well.

I can't give you a complete answer, just partial stuff I am aware of

1. Rust fanboys poping up on other language topic and shitting on them and promoting Rust

2. Ton of low quality promotion, like you would get on HN crap like TODO application in Rust, and the Rust community would just upvote and promote this low level 1 weekend project just because is Rust

3. RIR rewrite it in rust, toxic Rust fans would popup on projects communities and demand to rewrite it in rust, or why is this not in Rust, or I would contribute if you rewrite it in rust.

I am not sure why this community is so toxic, I do not remember Java,Python to have this problem, I suspect that the toxic part is just a portion of the developers but the community of Rust devs did not manage to keep the toxic people in check.

But honestly use a search engine and find more details, I am avoiding this kind of drama so I do not have latest gossip (just seen a link here that the ladybird devs also called the Rust people toxic , probably because they are butt hurt that people are making a more popular browser then their Rust alternatives)