Hey goats, so for probably the billionth time I've decided I want to learn programming (I always make good headway and then get bored - I'm great at the fundamentals in most popular languages :/) and I've recently developed an interest in Rust... the language is different enough to keep me interested in learning, and the prospect of having an relatively new OS to look at (Redox OS) is very appealing.
That said I know the community is festooned with SJWs/radfems/marxists/identitarians, they use the CoC (CoC Cancer --- don't click the link, save your sanity, it's too late for me but not for you) which promotes creating friendlier and more welcoming communities, fair enough yeah? But the fact that's it's used, first and foremost as a vehicle to force identitarianism into the tech and open source community is what I have a problem with. You can't just be a coder/programmer/developer/whatever... you have to be a BLACK coder, a QUEER programmer, a TRANS developer... and that is the most important facet of your contribution, that you're black, queer, trans, whatever :/ They also use the Node.JS Policy on Trolling (Node.JS Cancer --- just read item #1 and then run).
I think I'm going to push forward with learning Rust, technically it look's sound (so far) and I have no issues with it, I don't plan on engaging with the official Rust community and if I need to there's plenty of sane places to engage with others (like right here, hey everyone!).
Just interested in your thoughts on Rust, it's community, SJWism being forced into tech/open source and so on...
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[–] 9801070? [S] ago
Just read the first post on this github discussion: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/25640
They're a cancer, and like cancer they will infest and grow into any community they can. Tech/coding is no different I'm afraid. Just too many white/cis/het/males doing well in this field, and that just cannot stand!
[–] tame 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Wow, what BS. Even back in the 90s, anything with a gendered pronoun in a positive context had to be female. Science and maths textbooks used exclusively female pronouns... 'the scientist notices her experiment does X', 'she inverts the matrix' etc. And still, any time anything ever uses male pronouns we have to change them to female pronouns "for equal representation." So fucking sick of it.
[–] Messmer_Messmer ago
Never point out it was white males that developed most of the technology these twinkies work with....This is the tip-of-the-iceberg Leninist politics. As others are saying, it's a cancer.