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Rust could be a nice language if it wasn't for its insufferable "community".

• troad 3y ago
  I've lost track of the amount of things where the thing itself is cool but the fan club is insufferable. I've grown to really like Rust over the years, but this was very much despite the Rust fanatics, not because of them. Now that ChatGPT has come along, I find it much preferable for coding assistance than dealing with the Rust fandom. "Why are you bothering with all this FFI stuff? You should just rewrite all your dependencies in Rust!" shudder
• cookieperson 3y ago
  The rust community is great, but definitely avoid the power structures. Thats the same for any niche programming language by the way. That said rust does seem to have a lot of public drama, the whole team or something quit last year, I don't remember. Just remember OSS is a game of trying to get people to do a lot of work for zero compensation beyond social recognition or the fun of doing things... There's going to be a lot of slimy stuff around the organizations behind that.