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Having participated in Rust for the last 8 years, the community has been great. Very friendly at meetups, always eager to help debug issues or explain things. A
by insanitybit 3y ago
Having participated in Rust for the last 8 years, the community has been great. Very friendly at meetups, always eager to help debug issues or explain things. As an outsider maybe it looks like there's lots of drama but that's not accurate at all. Most everyone I've interacted is very humble.
I always find it ironic that people say that Rust can't handle criticism when it is constantly being criticized... like in literally this exact post that we're all commenting on. That is a happy Rust user criticizing the language lol but yeah sure "many fans" refuse to listen to criticism.
- jstx1 3y agoYou're right, it's a bit more nuanced. People I've met at Rust meetups have been great, and some of the prominent people in the community are wonderful (I really like Jon Gjengset's youtube streams for example). At the same time if you look at Rust discussions on twitter and reddit, I think they very often match what I'm describing. Sure, maybe twitter and reddit as platforms encourage some unhealthy patterns but twitter/reddit discussions for other languages aren't nearly as toxic as Rust's. So I still think there's something there.
- insanitybit 3y agoIMO that's just Twitter being a hyper inflammatory platform. Rust's community is also a lot more active online/on Twitter than other languages, so I think that'll bias things considerably.
- shakow 3y ago> on twitter and reddit There, this was your mistake. :p
- jstx1 3y agoI explained why "twitter and reddit bad" isn't a good enough argument.