<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>SamReidHughes</author><text>The way I&amp;#x27;d put it is, I&amp;#x27;d be much more confident in the ability of an open source project to survive receiving contributions from the general public if it were written in Rust rather than C++.</text><parent_chain><item><author>penpapersw</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not that optimistic. In my experience, nightmare-level code will be written by the person who wrote it no matter what language they use. Rust doesn&amp;#x27;t look all that cleaner than C++, just that it has a few more safety guarantees. I&amp;#x27;m sure terrible code will be written in it. And I&amp;#x27;m sure clean code will be written in it that people without context will call terrible code.</text></item><item><author>sushisource</author><text>Rust is not only a fantastic language, but the level of community involvement from the devs is just completely unlike any other language I&amp;#x27;ve seen in a very long time. That really makes me excited that it will be adopted in the industry over time and ideally replace some of the nightmare-level C++ code out there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Try Out Rust IDE Support in Visual Studio Code</title><url>https://users.rust-lang.org/t/try-out-rust-ide-support-in-visual-studio-code/12407</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wtetzner</author><text>I think the bigger problem is that nightmare code is the stuff nobody understands. So it&amp;#x27;s the hardest to re-write, because nobody knows what it does.&lt;p&gt;So nightmare code is the code that lives forever, whereas well-written code is easily replaceable.</text><parent_chain><item><author>penpapersw</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not that optimistic. In my experience, nightmare-level code will be written by the person who wrote it no matter what language they use. Rust doesn&amp;#x27;t look all that cleaner than C++, just that it has a few more safety guarantees. I&amp;#x27;m sure terrible code will be written in it. And I&amp;#x27;m sure clean code will be written in it that people without context will call terrible code.</text></item><item><author>sushisource</author><text>Rust is not only a fantastic language, but the level of community involvement from the devs is just completely unlike any other language I&amp;#x27;ve seen in a very long time. That really makes me excited that it will be adopted in the industry over time and ideally replace some of the nightmare-level C++ code out there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Try Out Rust IDE Support in Visual Studio Code</title><url>https://users.rust-lang.org/t/try-out-rust-ide-support-in-visual-studio-code/12407</url></story>