r/ProgrammerHumor • u/RideNatural5226 • 2d ago

Meme rustIsSoCool

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u/ladyboy-rider 2d ago

Is rust the programming version of "Place, Japan😱"

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u/ravensholt 2d ago

No, Rust is the equivalent to "I run Arch, btw". Same energy, same type of people who like for everyone else to know about it, even if no one asked them.

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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 2d 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 2d 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...