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I've found there are two entirely different worlds within the Rust community. Rust does attract a weird subgroup of people who can get preachy and pushy about
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
I've found there are two entirely different worlds within the Rust community.
Rust does attract a weird subgroup of people who can get preachy and pushy about there only being one way to do things.
But the helpful part of the community is much bigger and much better to work with. You just have to look past the loud people pushing agendas and stay out of flamewars on Reddit and HN.
- Arnavion 4y agoIt's the over-enthusiastic zealots. They're not unique to Rust. For example the golang community has equally defensive people who believe that Moses carved `if err != nil { return err }` as the 11th commandment, and anyone who wants less verbose error handling is an enemy of simplicity.
- Waterluvian 4y agoI have yet to run into the first type and I hope I never do. I’ve had such wonderful experience of people willing to help. Even big names like Steve Klabnik graciously offered some responses to my very elementary comments and questions. The only community that’s been just as wonderful is the TypeScript community on Discord. Gosh they set the bar high for expectations on getting language help.