How I went about learning Rust

Re:How I went about learning Rust by vladvasiliu on Friday July 15, 2022 @02:32AM (#32105261)

> Also, the community is toxic.

How so? I've seen the random drama crop up here and there, but it always seemed to mostly be about the "political" side of things, as opposed to the technical development.

What few interactions I've had with library maintainers and the tokio project have always been positive, and the people always seemed helpful.

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Re:How I went about learning Rust by hu3 on Friday July 15, 2022 @03:00AM (#32105449)

Comments like this one below are often downvoted without reply just because they criticise rust:

> I founf myself in your same situation a few months ago. I chose Rust and regret it...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32105336

GP puts it well:

> Just like in any sect. As long as you agree everything is perfect, the community is the friendliest indeed.

The community isn't toxic as long as you happen to agree with it and praise Rust... Go figure.

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Re:How I went about learning Rust by Ygg2 on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:41AM (#32106381)

GP is also wrong.

At this point it's mostly a meme. Rust is slow to compile. I mean, yeah if you abuse meta programming or monomorphisation.

I've been programming in it, and while I like the language, I'm not on the language community bandwagon. E.g. CoC and it's enforcement (I think it's just pointless grandstanding).

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Re:How I went about learning Rust by zozbot234 on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:13AM (#32106557)

I've seen pretty much zero grandstanding in the Rust community about the CoC. They seem to treat it as any CoC should be treated in practice; a failsafe measure which is most critical for in-person events, and to protect people who make their real-world identity public from aggressive trolling and malicious behavior.

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Re:How I went about learning Rust by Ygg2 on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:31AM (#32106668)

First. You are arguing against my sidenote, on why I don't consider myself Rust coolaid member. Second: it's just my opinion.

Third: I said CoC is grandstanding. It's just a toothless document, that pretends to solve issues much like renaming Git default branch master->main.

We saw it wasn't enforceable last year when Rust moderators quit over being unable to enforce it.

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