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

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Show threadKirtai 🏳️‍⚧️1d ago
@cwebber
Well, that further cements my decision to have nothing to do with it.
Especially after the stuff I've heard about the team that leads them.
Show threadDuke of Germany 💫
Do you happen to have a link at hand for what you read / heard?
@kirtai @cwebber
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Show threadderptron1d ago

@duke_of_germany @kirtai @cwebber Yeah, would be interested as well.

Did some digging and all I can find is that a few years ago some people were really pissed off that the Rust team was putting LGBTQ+ support stuff on the mascot in discord and expressing solidarity for Iranian protestors and human rights. They seem to do this quite unashamedly, saying they don't really care if people don't want them to be political or whatever because writing tech is a political act.

Show threadKirtai 🏳️‍⚧️1d ago
@crazyeddie @duke_of_germany @cwebber
Mostly from here though if you have more recent information I'd be interested.
Why is there so much mismanagement in the Rust foundation and core team?

Just to give everybody a perspective, read the following articles: The Core Team Is Toxic - HackMD On the RustConf keynote | Rust Blog Rust Foundation apologizes for trademark policy confusion • The Register Entire Rust moderation team resigns • The Register The RustConf Keynote Fiasco, explained Why I left Rust Rust: The wrong people are resigning Could anybody explain why is it? M concern is about how all this could potentially affect the future of the Rust language. Why have none of thes...

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Show threadderptron1d ago

@kirtai @duke_of_germany @cwebber Nope. Would appear there were multiple paths of drama around the same time.

That conference bullshit is fucked. Kind of thing that makes for a life nemesis--horror movie level nemesis.

"One of these days I'm going to bathe in their blood." No warning. Just one day you wake up and you're upside down and your life is draining out into a bucket.