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…

@Ddystopia in the same thread as above . [...] just returning an error is not error handling, it is just user space unwinding.

"it’s much better to make lock automatically panic than to make panics silently unlock." -- In defense of lock poisoning in Rust · sunshowers

Or deadlock, which is also popular!

The DRM (graphics) subsystem has been an early adopter of the Rust language. It was still perhaps surprising, though, when Airlie (the DRM maintainer) said that the subsystem is only "about a year away" from disallowing new drivers written in C and requiring the use of Rust. The state o…

[image] What's going on with bincode? I allow my code to be used for training AI on GitHub. Not because I fear AI taking our jobs—but because I’m confident my code will slow it down enough to save us all. I choked on this :rofl:

That'll have the expectation that you can write C code there :sweat_smile:

Given C++'s origin as a superset of earlier C revisions, would cpp — C interface for Rust // Lib.rs be sufficient?

what even is time?!? – Ralf Jung on his blog

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briankung December 17, 2025, 7:58pm 1739

they should just rename unsafe to C so people can shut up

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