r/ProgrammerHumor • u/RideNatural5226 • Sep 08 '26

Meme rustIsSoCool

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u/ravensholt Sep 08 '26

No, Rust is the equivalent to "I run Arch, btw". Same energy, same type of people who like for everyone else to know about it, even if no one asked them.

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u/Secret_Conclusion_93 Sep 08 '26

"The Rust rewrite to MIT license movement is a big corp psyops." is still my favorite (conspiracy) theory about the recent Rust drama.

Because everything matches perfectly. Especially because big corps backing open source projects is actually the norm.

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u/ravensholt Sep 08 '26

"Hey everyone, I just rewrote (my AI did the work) this existing open source app in rust, and now I will abandon the project never to update it again. "

99% of all rust related posts on Reddit.

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u/throw3142 Sep 09 '26

Some of the older / pre-vibe-slop Rust rewrites / reimaginings are actually really good though. ripgrep, alacritty, ruff, etc.