I'm impressed with how many great tools have been created in a short period of time. The Rust community really pulled together and made sure that there are Rust alternatives to as many tools out there as possible.

Thank you so much, and keep up with great work!

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[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] BB_C@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

rationale behind the design principle is the only organizing entity here it seems.

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.

[–] alzymologist@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago

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!

[–] BB_C@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago

Good comment.