wish there were c/c++-like forums and communities but for rust

such a dead gen z language goddamn

I do keep finding Chinese ones but I don't speak Chinese

tbh it's like rust has no culture other than writing too many words and being fakely nice while actually being dismissive and standing in the way of discovering actual answers. it's like they lack curiousity? humanity? I don't even know

The reddit is very active unlike c++

If you gonna join the Rust Reddit, make sure your username is malloc4life or mallocdiscipline.

Make from this site the Rust site :) You can talk here about any Rust related thing you want. There are not enough real rants anyway. We need new content type.

@retoor What about:

"RealProgrammersUseC++" as user name for Rust community?

@12bitfloat but no BBS forums or nerdy discord sub communities. c++ have close-knit groups but rust is centralized and modded

I hate the modern forums. and reddit's upvote system makes knowing people individually impossible. people get distracted by the points system and lose their humanity

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on rust lang meta I found a post where someone was talking, quite politically correctly, that rust communities seem a bit toxic

everyone replied with their take on their experiences. which were too verbose and said nothing

and then a mod came in and closed the thread for being unproductive

aight

@Demolishun insta banned

Rust is the NFT of programming languages. It seemed like a good idea, a year into a pandemic lockdown.

@MM83 Wrong

(queue trump clip)

@12bitfloat Right! 😁😁😁

@12bitfloat to be honest, it didn't even seem like a good idea to me then, and I'd been day-drinking alone for six months. I might go see what Rust looks like from this notionally stable position.

@MM83 for people who don't have the discipline for malloc and free. Nothing is free, not even performance. 😁😁😁.

@MM83 ah, don't pull out. Let's kick the Rust devs down now. I'm with you 😁.

@retoor don't worry, my pull out game is terrible. They're ok, they're just junior really. Like when you first start out and you think that, I dunno, Flash Actionscript is the best language on Earth because it's the only one you've used.

@MM83 wow wow wow. Seen my site? I'm Actionscript superstar. Actionscript till I die and stuff. Flash should've stayed. But yes, while working on the most stable operating system ever made they're still hypocrite enough to call C an unsafe language just because you can't master it in 15 minutes and requires discipline. It's not C, it's the dev being unsafe.

@retoor right. These languages are supposed to be "unsafe", how else are we supposed to feel smug for writing in them? Making C "safe" is like putting stabilisers on a motorbike.

@MM83 exactly. Like a motor it's a power tool in the right hands and not for everyone. Don't drive a car and say a motor is bad because you can't drive it well huh :) it's not the motors fault, some people drive motor very well.

@MM83 me with my big mouth, i think i have a memory leak in my PYTHON CODE. is that even possible...