Rust proponent organizing social media brigades and making lists of people to target, apparently for harassment:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/1292
> Technical patches and discussions matter. Social media brigading - no than\k you.
> Thinking of literally starting a Linux maintainer hall of shame. Not for public consumption, but to help new kernel contributors know what to expect.
> Every experienced kernel submitter has this in their head, maybe it should be finally written down.
> Okay I literally just started this privately and the first 3 names involved are all people named variants on "Christ". Maybe there's a pattern here... religion secretly trying to sabotage the Linux kernel behind the scenes???
> Edit: /s because apparently some people need it.
Steve Klabnik and much of the Rust community vehemently defending and justifying Hector Martin's actions here and elsewhere.
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Attempted murder against a Rust critic:
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Swatting-Open-source-developer-...
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-dev-swatte...
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Rust bots will downvote this post, because the humans behind the bots dislike truth that brings their actions to light
I might stay away from a particularly toxic community or one with wildly different values, but I don't really get why you wouldn't write Rust just because of how some people post about it. Odd tbh. I find the whole thing about "oh the rust zealots" hand wringing stuff so silly, really.