> Back when I wrote C and C++ for a living I'd occasionally meet someone who thought their ability to employ the spiral rule or parse a particularly dense template construct meant they were a genius. I get the same vibe from certain other groups in this industry, most recently from functional programmers and Rust afficionados, for example. Nobody gives a damn if you can narrate a C spiral or a functional-like Rust idiom.

I think one problem is dealing with "just because you can doesn't mean you should". It is easy to be nerd-sniped into optimizing everything in Rust. I've seen complain about an arg parser using dynamic dispatch when anything the program actually does will dwarf the time that that takes. I feel we need a reset; a stdlib-alternative that optimized for those learning and prototyping at the cost of performance. I suspect people using that will help break them of the feeling to optimize the trivial but to instead focus on what profilers tell them.