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…

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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:

This is a snowclone of an Internet-ancient (at least 20 years, probably much earlier) vegan joke How you do you know someone's a vegan? Don't worry, they'll tell you Considering the history, this is likely a case of How do you know somebody hates Rust? Don't worry, they'll tell you how awful R…

That's why I use Rust in secret, in the privacy of my own home. I try to keep quite about it around my Python using colleagues. It's good that I can come out here and talk about it sometimes.

"Have you tried... Not liking Rust?"

I find rust & python (users & lang) play quite nicely together. It's the go colleagues I didn't hide from and ended up with "regular, friendly discussions over coffee".

By kpreid here in URLO: [image] Slightly surprising behavior of a while loop Posts like this are useful for those of us who like to help, and who work on rustc to make it more helpful, by letting us learn about what kinds of mistakes people make.

This overflows the trait solver today as well as my brain From When can Traits Depend on Themselves? | Nadri’s musings

These people did the work and proved to us that this is a good idea, and here are the benefits, and they're going to stick around. [...] Rust is going to save Linux in the end. [...] We now understand and believe that. Greg Kroah Hartman, Corrode podcast, 10:17

By Kornel here in URLO, on the subject of C vs. Rust's unsafe: [image] Is unsafe Rust worse than C? If memory safety bugs were Waldo (Wally): finding them in C programs is a "Where's Waldo?" game, and Rust's unsafe simplifies it to "Is this Waldo?"

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theemathas June 4, 2026, 1:31pm 1779

It's a footgun, yes, but it's a sound footgun.

— Ralf Jung (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/155750#discussion_r3356323620)

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