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…

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

Great to see how Miri is progressing. I find it amazing that by using Rust and Miri I am using tools that are on the edge of fundamental research in Programming Languages. Actual practically usable tools that anyone can use, not arcane code experiments passed around between academics.

[image] ZiCog: I find it amazing that by using Rust and Miri I am using tools that are on the edge of fundamental research in Programming Languages. Actual practically usable tools that anyone can use, not arcane code experiments passed around between academics. Nominating ^^^

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Great quote to use in debates with C++ cultists, when technical arguments aka facts are not enough. Though some men you just can't reach.

I might suspect that if you are lumping all statically-typed languages into a single bucket without making particular distinction among them, then you might not have fully internalized the implications of union (aka Rust enum aka sum) typed data structures combined with exhaustive pattern matching. …

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Kyllingene December 30, 2025, 5:25pm 1745

Nominating ^^^

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