Rust Evangelism Strike Force Assembles
Description
This meme uses a well-known screenshot from 'The Simpsons' depicting an angry mob of Springfield residents, including characters like Mayor Quimby and Groundskeeper Willie, holding flaming torches and marching with furious expressions. The image is captioned with bold, white text in the Impact font. The top text reads, 'RUST PROGRAMMERS', and the bottom text says, 'WHEN SOMEONE IS USING C'. The humor comes from the hyperbolic portrayal of the Rust programming language community. It satirizes the stereotype of Rust developers being so passionate about their language's memory safety features that they react with aggressive evangelism, like an angry mob, whenever they see someone using the older, memory-unsafe C language. For experienced developers, this is a relatable caricature of online 'language wars' and the fervent advocacy that often surrounds newer technologies positioned as replacements for industry standards
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The Rust mob is angry because they just spent an hour appeasing the borrow checker, only to see a C dev casually introduce three new CVEs with a single `strcpy`
When you enable `#![deny(unsafe_code)]` in Cargo.toml, apparently it also spawns a real-time riot controller for any C compiler spotted nearby
After 20 years of debugging segfaults and buffer overflows, you realize the Rust evangelists aren't wrong about memory safety... but you still reach for C when you need to write a kernel module because sometimes you need to live dangerously and actually ship before the heat death of the universe
The irony here is that while Rust programmers righteously brandish their borrow checker like torches against C's 'unsafe' practices, they conveniently forget that Rust's standard library, compiler toolchain, and LLVM backend are all... written in C and C++. It's the ultimate 'standing on the shoulders of giants while throwing rocks at their feet' scenario. Plus, half these 'angry mob' Rust evangelists are probably one `unsafe` block away from manually dereferencing raw pointers themselves when performance actually matters
Rust devs form a torch‑lit parade against C - then FFI into libc because the SLA outranks ideology
Rust devs with torches: because nothing quells a use-after-free like a lifetime-scoped witch hunt
The Rust mob always wins the architecture review - right up to the 2003 vendor C SDK, where we bless an FFI shim, forfeit the guarantees, and keep the 3am PagerDuty anyway
afaik rust developers have no beef with c devs, it's c++ devs who they despise Comment deleted
Oldschool C and C++ developers heading towards Rust developer riot Comment deleted
No package manager people vs Drama queen language Comment deleted
How comes that Rust developers all use torches, taking into account that this thing is very unsafe for both its user (let's call him Stack) and surroundings (Heap)? 😁 Comment deleted
because they use external haskell torches which have no side effects and that makes them allegedly safe also no one gives a shit about haskell Comment deleted
https://harelang.org/blog/2022-06-21-safety-features/ also anything C-like Comment deleted