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Every rust post brings out one of these. Where's the evidence? The linked article doesn't even touch on on it. rust-lang.org isn't a big rainbow flag or anythin

by bfrog 4y ago

Every rust post brings out one of these. Where's the evidence? The linked article doesn't even touch on on it. rust-lang.org isn't a big rainbow flag or anything. At most people seem to be offended by the community code of conduct that sort of lays out the golden rule with some added verbage for the thick skulls out there? Even if it was a big rainbow flag at rust-lang.org, who the hell cares? The language is fantastic and solves real problems.

resoluteteeth 4y ago
> Every rust post brings out one of these. Where's the evidence? The linked article doesn't even touch on on it. rust-lang.org isn't a big rainbow flag or anything. The article actually does touch on it, but it's very easy to miss since it's just mentioned in passing as one example in a small section noting ways in which the language tried to be build "a culture that was known for being unusually friendly and open to newcomers," which kind of makes it even weirder that someone would be so triggered that they would need to post a whole rant about it and dismiss the entire article as "obligatory LGBTQ nonsense": > Along the way, the Rust community was also building a culture that was known for being unusually friendly and open to newcomers. “No one ever calls you a noob,” says Nell Shamrell-Harrington, a principal engineer at Microsoft who at the time worked on Rust at Mozilla. “No question is considered a stupid question.” > Part of this, she says, is that Hoare had very early on posted a “code of conduct,” prohibiting harassment, that anyone contributing to Rust was expected to adhere to. The community embraced it, and that, longtime Rust community members say, drew queer and trans coders to get involved in Rust in higher proportions than you’d find with other languages. Even the error messages that the compiler creates when the coder makes a mistake are unusually solicitous; they describe the error, and also politely suggest how to fix it. > “The C and C++ compiler[s], when I make mistakes, make me feel like a terrible person,” Shamrell-Harrington says with a laugh. “The Rust compiler is more like it’s guiding you to write super-safe code.”

by bfrog 4y ago

resoluteteeth 4y ago

> Every rust post brings out one of these. Where's the evidence? The linked article doesn't even touch on on it. rust-lang.org isn't a big rainbow flag or anything. The article actually does touch on it, but it's very easy to miss since it's just mentioned in passing as one example in a small section noting ways in which the language tried to be build "a culture that was known for being unusually friendly and open to newcomers," which kind of makes it even weirder that someone would be so triggered that they would need to post a whole rant about it and dismiss the entire article as "obligatory LGBTQ nonsense": > Along the way, the Rust community was also building a culture that was known for being unusually friendly and open to newcomers. “No one ever calls you a noob,” says Nell Shamrell-Harrington, a principal engineer at Microsoft who at the time worked on Rust at Mozilla. “No question is considered a stupid question.” > Part of this, she says, is that Hoare had very early on posted a “code of conduct,” prohibiting harassment, that anyone contributing to Rust was expected to adhere to. The community embraced it, and that, longtime Rust community members say, drew queer and trans coders to get involved in Rust in higher proportions than you’d find with other languages. Even the error messages that the compiler creates when the coder makes a mistake are unusually solicitous; they describe the error, and also politely suggest how to fix it. > “The C and C++ compiler[s], when I make mistakes, make me feel like a terrible person,” Shamrell-Harrington says with a laugh. “The Rust compiler is more like it’s guiding you to write super-safe code.”