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Re:Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing la... by MisterTea on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:28PM (#34792777)
To me it seems LGBTQ people are drawn to interesting things that differ from the mainstream. A small, weird, underestimated project which becomes a mainstream success parallels their own identity struggle.
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Re:Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing la... by B8MGHCBekDuRi on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:06AM (#34801589)
popular among coders != successful

C/C++ are successful because even my mother knows about them.

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Re:Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing la... by MisterTea on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @10:28AM (#34805046)
> popular among coders != successful

Not that these project become/are successful but the fact that LGBTQ people enjoy helping to make it successful. e.g. "Everyone thought this software was weird, scary and looked down upon it but we helped prove that it is a wonderful thing once you get to know it"

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Re:Rust went from side project to world’s fastest growing la... by B8MGHCBekDuRi on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:57AM (#34816537)
> but the fact that LGBTQ people enjoy helping to make it successful.

can we stop idolizing things that are so common, they're boring?

I've worked with LGBTQ people in software engineering before the LGBTQ acronym was even invented and they were 10 to 20 years older than me already in the 90s...

Why there are people pretending that the World did not exist and had different rules before Rust?

Is Rust a new kind of religion?

It looks like it is for some people.

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