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…

turns out o-ped is canon now, TWIR has decreed #t-opsem > Looping opsem into libs changes @ :speech_balloon:

it's an old one from "let's get rusty" but I only just heard it: Rust Ruined My Career (I Can't Go Back) (very tongue-in-cheek!) The community is obnoxiously helpful. I asked a simple question on the Rust community Discord server. What is the best way to read a file in Rust? I expected a straightf…

cursed knowledge helps with breaking things — @maxdex , Public view of rust-lang | Zulip team chat

There's another good qoute a few lines down: opsem is the crusher of dreams @clarfonthey #t-opsem > What is the current state of unleaking a `Box

the language has big plans or at least, big requests to plan — Clar Fon, on the many many topics that needs discussion in the language team. #t-lang/meetings > Triage meeting 2026-09-30 @ :speech_balloon:

And from Clar Fon again... This time in yesterday's design meeting: in stdlib we can make up our own compiler features if we need to, but in user-land that's not possible (is there a "most nominations in one week" prize?)

Responding to my comment that " rust-lang/rust#159295 implements rust-lang/rfcs#3753 by lowering SomeType { .. } to PatKind::Wild in THIR", @RalfJung replied : I see. That's... a kind of wild lowering.

(compilers are already expected to take 100% CPU anyway, so just let them mine some bitcoin) — @steffahn , Public view of rust-lang | Zulip team chat

I was joking about this being QOTW, but ok :laughing:

There ain't no rules here in Quote of the Week - it's survival of the wittest

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jofas October 4, 2026, 10:58am 1815

You knew this was going to get proposed:

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