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Do you think that the linked Twitter post, quoting from Reddit, is using the same definition of "Rust community" that you are? This seems like another instance
by jmillikin 4y ago
Do you think that the linked Twitter post, quoting from Reddit, is using the same definition of "Rust community" that you are?
This seems like another instance of the above pattern, where "Rust community" is simultaneously:
(1) The set of people who talk about Rust online in major forums, such as Twitter and Reddit, and
(2) The set of people who post on the moderated low-traffic official forum.
I don't think most people, when someone says "Rust community should ...", would consider that to be scoped to people posting on rust-lang.org.
Consider that according to https://users.rust-lang.org/u https://users.rust-lang.org/u there are 22,000 registered users on the rust-lang.org forums. There are currently 191,000 people subscribed to /r/rust, and since it's Reddit there's no need to be subscribed to post or comment. The number of people talking about Rust on Twitter is less practical to count, but probably at least the same order of magnitude.
- pverghese 4y agoI think he's probably refering to something like the actix situation where the insults and vitriol because of the use of unsafe for performance, made the author quit. Which is unfortunate for any open source contributor