I'd like to start adding a 'quote of the week' to TWiR . So far though I've been terrible about taking note of good quotes from the Rust world. And also there is much more going on than I can follow personally. So this thread is to beg for people who see insightful or funny things said about or in r…

I must personally extend my condolences to those who forgot they chose in the past to annoy their future self. @workingjubilee on the GitHub actions/runner-images hold-back of 1.90 .

For me personally, the best thing about becoming successful at anything is you gain the ability to lift others up. – Nell Shamrell-Harrington at RustConf (youtube link)

Pointers are quite hard. – Tim McNamara And, as the name implies, pointy. – Andre 'llogiq' Bogus on LinkedIn

There used to be recurring questions about mod vs use in the user forum, until I've added a note to the error message [...] and I think it largely solved the problem Kornel on IRLO Curly brace support for mod - #51 by kornel - Rust Internals

what do you mean by "this is no longer a known issue" ? – matthiaskgr on rust-zulip

I have however developed the standard Rust enthusiast panick attack at the first SIGSEGV, so I don't want that to happen. :laughing: @vigna at Should/can one trust invariants in serialized data? - #23 by vigna

If someone opens a PR introducing C++ to your Rust project, that code is free as in "use after" :crab: Predrag Gruevski on Mastodon

Making your unsafe very tiny is sort of like putting caution markings on the lethally strong robot arm with no proximity sensors, rather than on the door into the protective cage. – Stephan Sokolow on lobste.rs

We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust's impact on software delivery. With Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review…

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llogiq October 23, 2025, 9:46am 1724

Petition to add an unwise keyword in Rust

– James Logan on hachyderm.io

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