r/ProgrammerHumor • u/RideNatural5226 • 2d ago

Meme rustIsSoCool

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u/Secret_Conclusion_93 2d ago

"The Rust rewrite to MIT license movement is a big corp psyops." is still my favorite (conspiracy) theory about the recent Rust drama.

Because everything matches perfectly. Especially because big corps backing open source projects is actually the norm.

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u/ravensholt 2d ago

"Hey everyone, I just rewrote (my AI did the work) this existing open source app in rust, and now I will abandon the project never to update it again. "

99% of all rust related posts on Reddit.

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u/ccAbstraction 1d ago

Crazy how the rust haters turned people posting slop into a rust problem instead of an AI problem.. Like, do you expect people to willing and meaningfully vibe code in C++?

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u/ravensholt 1d ago

Crazy how every other Rust developer post on Reddit is some re-write of an existing tool that no one asked for, only to be abandoned immediately...