Christine Lemmer-Webber1d ago

The Rust project puts out an article about how they're listening to their community https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/rust-challenges/

Except it turns out that article was drafted by an LLM https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1rz15t3/what_we_heard_about_rusts_challenges_and_how_we/obiwu24/

They claim nearly every line was rewritten by a human but I'm not sure how you could send a worse signal to your community about how much you aren't listening than having an LLM draft a post saying we're really listening, honest

What we heard about Rust's challenges, and how we can address them | Rust Blog

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Show threaddatenwolf

@cwebber

And once again the Zig language project shows, that there's a better way: https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/#strict-no-llm-no-ai-policy

Code of Conduct ⚡ Zig Programming Language

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Show threademilianosandri1d ago
@datenwolf @cwebber I considered learning Rust because I was looking for a modern systems language with modern tooling and without GC but the complicated syntax, the complex toolchain and a lack of a standard is pushing me towards Zig, this is another strong push in that direction.
Show threadSuperIlu1d ago
@emilianosandri @datenwolf @cwebber I dabbled with zig about a year ago and I really liked it...
Show threadmathew1d ago
@emilianosandri @datenwolf @cwebber The horrible syntax of Rust is what kept me away too, and the slow compiler and ugly cross compilation didn’t help. Definitely going to check out Zig when I have time.
Show threadDuchamp Pérez1d ago
@cwebber @datenwolf Ha! I am starting to learn Zig this week then