The Rust Evangelism Corollary

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A screenshot of a comment thread from a social media platform, likely Reddit, with a dark mode theme. The first comment states a well-known quote in the programming world: 'There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.' The second comment adds a simple, impactful reply: 'And then there's Rust.' The third and final comment delivers the punchline: 'yeah that's the one where you complain about the people who use it rather than the language itself'. The humor is a meta-commentary on the developer community's perception of Rust. While the language itself is often praised for its performance and safety features, its community has gained a reputation for being overly zealous and evangelistic, constantly suggesting that other projects be 'rewritten in Rust.' This meme resonates with senior developers who have witnessed this phenomenon online and appreciate the nuanced joke that separates the technology from its culture

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Rust's borrow checker prevents data races, but its community has no mutex on telling you you're using the wrong language

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Rust's borrow checker prevents data races, but its community has no mutex on telling you you're using the wrong language
Anonymous

Rust’s real latency isn’t compile time - it’s the extra 20 minutes each stand-up takes because one engineer keeps memory-safely explaining how lifetimes would fix everything
Anonymous

The real borrow checker in Rust isn't the compiler - it's the community members who won't let you borrow five minutes of peace without hearing about zero-cost abstractions and memory safety guarantees
Anonymous

Rust perfectly embodies the observer effect in software engineering: a language so technically sound that the primary complaint isn't about borrow checker errors or lifetime annotations anymore - it's about the enthusiastic community members who won't stop telling you about memory safety at every standup. It's the only language where 'rewrite it in Rust' became such a meme that even Rustaceans had to acknowledge they'd become the thing they swore to destroy: evangelists more annoying than the segfaults they prevent
Anonymous

Rust’s tooling returns Result<T, E>; the discourse returns Result<T, Evangelist>
Anonymous

Rust: where the borrow checker wins every battle, but Rustaceans win the war of words
Anonymous

In Rust, suggesting “maybe Go is fine here” is an unsafe block
@azizhakberdiev 4y

And C
@freeapp2014 4y

There are more people hating on the existence of the language than people who even have any relation to it
@Nufunello 4y

There are developed apps and rust apps
1. @RiedleroD 4y
  
  there are developers and then there are people with opinions on programming languages
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  Java is shit btw
  
  @Nufunello 4y
  
  😂
  
  @dsmagikswsa 4y
  
  Oops May I know why?
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  ram usage, shitty language design, and it's stuck on v8, so it'll be dead in 10 years anyway
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  well - dead on desktops anyway, Android will probably continue to use the JVM
  
  @QutePoet 4y
  
  VMware vCloud Director (multi tenant portal for service providers) has java backend and it's only continuing to grow in functionality. Not sure if they can deny successful (but buggy... Anyway who cares?) product and start it from scratch on different language.
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  who uses that?
  
  @QutePoet 4y
  
  Service providers: VMware itself, Amazon, UKCloud, DataLine, Rostelecom, Aruba Cloud, IT-Grad and more of them in different countries. Customers: big companies like big tech stores which has their points of sale around the country; banks; payment systems; insurance companies; Programmers and DevOps; small and medium-sized businesses in various areas — hundreds of them in just one big public cloud. Automation systems: vRealize Automation or vRealize Orchestrator, Terraform.
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  huh
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  With microsoft backing, lol
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  ?
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  Vscode
  
  @dsmagikswsa 4y
  
  I didn’t know Java stuck on V8. I thought JS only.
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  Same
  
  @dsmagikswsa 4y
  
  He actually mean Java8
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  v8 is Google's js interpreter, I meant java is stuck on version 1.8 (newest is 1.17)
  
  @freeapp2014 4y
  
  oh
  
  @Roman_Millen 4y
  
  But why? I've been seeing more and more projects using OpenJDK 11.
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  never seen a single one that requires a newer version than 8. To be fair, I try tot stay away from java in general.
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  Minecraft 1.17 fails to launch on Java 8
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  Minecraft 1.17+ uses Java 16 (older versions used Java 8 for a long time)
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  ah, right. I still use 1.9
  
  @sylfn 4y
  
  good chioce
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  I know :P
@RiedleroD 4y

performance
@sylfn 4y

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The Rust Evangelism Corollary

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