Brodie RobertsonFeb 9, 2025

I'll be doing a video on the Rust linux stuff, but the short story is Linus needs to put his foot down and decide what's happening with Rust, the way things are going can't be allowed to keep happening.

Either say you changed your mind Rust is not happening and tell the Rust fans to piss off and shut up about it, or tell the people trying hard to stop Rust to grow up and learn to work as a community. Sitting around watching these fights happen over and over again is a waste of everyone's time.

Show threadliamolua
@BrodieOnLinux
Before Rust came out I never heard of this hardcore programming language fanboy bullshit. Yeah there were people that preferred certain languages over the other but the absolute hate towards people that use one language you particularly don't like, where the hell did that stem from?
Feb 9, 2025 at 12:16amWeb
Show threadliamoluaFeb 9, 2025
@BrodieOnLinux
If you don't like the language and project is written in, then don't contribute to it. It has no relevance to you if you're not a developer on it.
Show threadBrodie RobertsonFeb 9, 2025
@liamolua A lot of that comes from Rust being a language that spawned during the age of social media, from the very first day you could make your entire online persona about one language. You could have talked about nothing but C with your colleagues but it didn't let you reach the same level of audience.
Show threadliamoluaFeb 9, 2025
@BrodieOnLinux
This makes a lot of sense actually.
Show threadGuillaume RacicotFeb 9, 2025
@liamolua @BrodieOnLinux well, C simply had no competition at the time. Rust is now a competitor to both C and C++ so of course it became controversial
Show threadVictor 4X6GPFeb 9, 2025
@liamolua @BrodieOnLinux Look at the lack of tolerance in recent decades for those who don't share one's political/cultural choices. People have developed personalities that tend to be pugnacious (see what I did?) about everything. Every disagreement becomes a hill to die on, and nobody remembers how to compromise.