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…

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

Self-suggestion, following a discussion on Zulip : in Rust we pay the price of composition up-front

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:

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".

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Darsstar June 10, 2026, 1:24pm 1780

Shnatsel: "The never type is named after the date of its stabilization" was a good joke while it lasted.
j_platte: Who knows, it could still last

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