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Deliberately or not, with good appreciative intentions or not, I'm afraid you're perpetuating a myth here (a conspiracy theory even, in some "mentally challenged" circles).
Most tools are independently created by individuals, or very small independent teams of contributors. And being an "alternative written in rust" is rarely a goal in and of itself (or shouldn't be anyway).
The notion of a unified central " community" that is responsible for creating 100s of tools is both silly and fictitious.
Talking about Rust itself as a good language with good tooling that allows individuals to create good tools, and contribute to a thriving library ecosystem, is okay. Not everything has to be a "community" or a "community effort" or framed that way, however.
@BB_C @frog_meister ""mentally challenged"" is... interesting... not sure how to feel about that or whoever it's mentioning.
In any case, society is not simply a bag of individuals. There's a reason surrounding documents, sources of information, tooling, well-known figures, etc. are considered an "ecosystem" - none of that lives in a vacuum.
In this sensw the danger only lies in *how* the generalization is being applied. In this example I see no issues. There seems to be a latent cultural trait of this and overlapping spaces that lends itself to "rewriting it in rust". And is ofteb from people who could be aptly described as being part of the "rust community", if at least in the trivial sense that they are active contributors to multiple projects.
And, to be frank, the framing of it being a "unified, central community" is entirely yours - they didnt neccesarily imply anything as such
The explicitness in that part of my comment was deliberate to fully dispel the "really pulled together and made sure" part from the well-meaning OP.
@BB_C And I think I clearly established that people can and may refer to even disparate sources of community as a community and make statements of this generalized nature.
To be frank "really pulled together and made sure" is more of a rhetorical device than it is any kind of stricter descriptor of what they think the community functionally looks like.
Even disconnected and incredibly diverse, united only by the tool, it's still a community. After all, we have more in common than some nations! (I still actively think there are fractions of community I hate, and more I don't know about and don't care to know about, but those are parts of social life too, I guess)
And when we talk about abstract constructs like communities, there is no need for conscious will or organizing initiatives. It just happened, just remember to disregard anyone talking about actual organized Rust community as having an authority or something; rationale behind the design principle is the only organizing entity here it seems.
That people create conspiracy theories whenever self-organization happens is natural thing apparently, you can't do anything about it. It's narration knowledge in a sense, and in our postmodern world, it is no more justified than solid scientific model of the world, we just have to accept and live around it, trying to avoid feeding myths is futile.
It is worth pointing out however (for "non-techies") that Rust projects have been written by people who love Rust and use it as their main language, love it but can't use it a lot in their employment, like it or are lukewarm about it and used it once or write in it on occasion, don't like it but wanted to experiment with it, hate it but learned it because it could be beneficial to them in some way, hate it but had to use it (usually as a part of their employment).
The success of the language means that not everyone who uses it necessarily even likes it. So not even a "belief" in the design principle can be assumed by all involved.
Yeah, I actually worked with a guy who thought it's all a bunch of noncense, and made really harsh jokes about typesafety and ownership rules and such, yet delivered decent Rust code!
Good comment.
You can even talk about Gaming community, even if its a much wider audience and diverse than everything about Rust. What a "community" is, is defined at the moment of "talking about it", and depends on the context. If the person thanks to the Rust community in a "random community", then it does not automatically mean thanking to this sub community only. What I mean is, I think, the person here thanks to everyone involved by Rust.