Especially because the borrow checker is the point, the added value, of rust. With it it can ensure compile time memory safety, without it it is just another programming language.

It is just because people are sensitive. Period.

His comment should be read as "I don't get the borrow checker".

Response of the Rust community: "lets vote him to oblivion".

Response should be: what part of it is not clear, hand him reference material etc.

This was the same with scala (which has its userbase cut in 1/10th of what it is). Scala is now almost extinct.

I would hate for Rust to become the next Scala because it offers so much nice features (for me that is native binaries) among others.

I've had my share of response to honest questions which resulted in comments that I should be using language X, or that I have some nice term wrong (which does not relate to the problem I was experiencing), I am asking the wrong question and so on.

Luckily there also were helpful comments, which kept me in the Rust ecosystem.

The other behaviour is not productive and just makes Rust look like a niche, elite and too hard language.

Be nice to each other. It will only make Rust and its community stronger.