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…

Nice blog. I think it is fair to say Rust’s DSTs are not completely finished yet, especially you cannot yet make your own Box using stable, which also means you cannot have a dyn MyTrait allocated from anywhere other than Global (using stable).

aside: that observation about DSTs is why I like noting that slices can be expressed as approximately type [T] = [T; dyn usize]. "Erased const generics" is I think the most fitting way to add custom DSTs to Rust. Self suggestion, initially quoted by @dhm .

Probably too late for this issue, not sure what policy is for filing for the next (does it need to have been said after publication of the last TWiR?): the amount of times that I spend 15 min in the docs + coding which end up in a monstrous or().flatten().map().is_ok_and() only to get slapped by c…

Just because technology alone cannot solve all problems doesn't mean we shouldn't leverage technology to chip at it and decrease the burden on humans. – u/mattheium on r/rust

llogiq thanks himself for the suggestion! By Ilogiq, on TWIR 646 , thanking Ilogiq for his suggestion.

From Tailscale post From a business standpoint, we should have reasonable confidence that it’ll stick around and be healthy for more than 10 years. We’d also like a robust ecosystem of code and tools that we can rely on, and experts we can hire. When referring to their choice to use Rust

Of the last 150 merged PRs to Bun, 108 are memory-safety-adjacent — missed cleanup on an error path, use-after-free, uninitialized reads, out-of-bounds access, reentrancy. 75 of those would not compile in a language with destructors, move semantics, and a borrow checker. One in three PRs we ship is…

Compiling comment v0.0.1 (/comment) error[E1337]: tagline "skill issue" is for C++ --> comment:1:23 | 1 | Who don't like it has skill issue. | ^^^^^^^^^^^ | help: rust's taglines are "🔥blazingly fast🔥" and "fearless concurrency" | 1 - Who don't like it has skill iss…

Heard quoted in a conference talk on YouTube the other day: How do you know if a programmer uses rust? They tell you about it ... all the time! Could search for attributions if interested, but probably just funny :winking_face_with_tongue:

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Nadrieril April 20, 2026, 2:03pm 1763

Self-suggestion, following a discussion on Zulip:

in Rust we pay the price of composition up-front

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