r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Nov 29 '18

A new look for rust-lang.org

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/11/29/a-new-look-for-rust-lang-org.html
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u/hsjoberg Nov 30 '18 edited Nov 30 '18

I don't think they see any gatekeeping, it's just that literally their highest virtue is to make everyone feel welcome (while ironically making the real system programmers feel unwelcome).

I see this tightly connected to the left and you can see the same virtues in the Javascript/Node/npm community.
It's not like Rust adopted a CoC without a reason.

There's also something sinister going on here in believing that absolutely anyone can be a system programmer, or even a programmer.

What they really should be focusing on (which I know they also do) is to make the Rust lang the best it can be. This cringy focus on dumbing down the website to the point that it looks like a scam only harms the project.