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

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Show threadsarah tonin 1d ago
@cwebber oh good to know the project lead is just as rotten as the community
Show threadSharp Cheddar Goblin1d ago
@SRAZKVT I've bounced off of learning Rust from a technical standpoint a few times now, what's the deal with the community? Maybe I'll have to write it off entirely.
Show threadsarah tonin 1d ago
@SharpCheddarGoblin personal experiences https://srazkvt.codeberg.page/posts/2025-12-18-stop-telling-me-to-use-rust.html
Sarah's website - Stop telling me to use rust.

Show threadprincess pancake ​1d ago
@SRAZKVT @SharpCheddarGoblin I see you repeatedly self-insert into conversations about Rust to express your desire for it to fade into obscurity again, isn't that kinda self-harm? ​​
Show threadsarah tonin 1d ago
@natty @SharpCheddarGoblin not my fault it pops up into my feed
Show threadprincess pancake ​1d ago
@SRAZKVT @SharpCheddarGoblin it's not your personal obligation to argue with every post that pops up tho
Show threadsarah tonin 

@natty unfortunately, i view reliable and resilient architecture as more important of a target than my own mental health

my mental health being better only benefits me and close ones, proper architecture and sharing knowledge of how we can make things better benefits everyone. pretty easy choice there

Mar 21 at 4:45pmWeb
Show threadprincess pancake ​1d ago
@SRAZKVT there's your problem

to make reliable and resilient architectures you first need functional mental health

"Sacrificing" by burning out is not heroism, it's depressing to see
Show threadsarah tonin 1d ago

@natty sorry but i just cannot stay still when everything is blowing up around me and i know how to at least somewhat fix up things

to me that would be immoral

Show threadprincess pancake ​1d ago
@SRAZKVT you remind me of the internal slideshow we have in training resources https://sre.google/resources/practices-and-processes/no-heroes/
Why heroism is bad, and what we can do to stop it

Discover Site Reliability Engineering, learn about team development, SRE toil reduction

Show thread🌸 Ⓐnarkitty lumi-nhac  1d ago
@SRAZKVT @natty sarah, please take care of yourself. none of this is worth it at the cost of your own mental health ​​
Show threadprincess pancake ​1d ago
@lumi @SRAZKVT real
Show threadprincess pancake ​1d ago
@lumi @SRAZKVT people are already burning out en masse, which is partially what brings us here

I know autistic creatures treat their special interest as if it were their moral obligation to keep the infrastructure alive, but sacrificing oneself to do that just creates a really cursed bus factor probability distribution
Show thread🌸 Ⓐnarkitty lumi-nhac  1d ago
@natty @SRAZKVT it's a very unfortunate situation, and i think one way this could be solved is to band together and support one-another

feeling like you're alone is a very quick way to burn out and get depressed
Show thread🌸 Ⓐnarkitty lumi-nhac  1d ago
@natty @SRAZKVT also, more so on the topic of rust. i used to be one of those insufferable people that kept spouting that c is a legacy language and whatnot

it's not worth it, a programming language is not at all a good reason to burn bridges and isolate yourself

since then i've learned to appreciate c a lot, and learned zig as well. there is a reason people love these languages, and there are reasons people love rust

i also met a few really amazing people by shifting my views a bit

all that being said, i do still criticize rust a lot. there are many things that are not ideal with it, but it's definitely not all bad (in fact, i love rust as a language, and all these issues just make me sad and want to fix it)

it's important to pick your battles, and i don't think this one is worth it
Show threadLisPi1d ago

@natty @SRAZKVT

to make reliable and resilient architectures you first need functional mental health

Eh not really. There are multiple examples of experts with failing mental health (or health in general) maintaining their skill up to the end.