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1. canger+fS[view] [source] 2024-01-17 16:51:21
>>Philpa+(OP)
I'm excited for the Rust project. But to add a superficial observation: It seems that the Rust project is not very diverse. Could that contribute to culture problems?

It seems to have a disproportionately high, relatively to society, percentage of white, male, strongly LGBT-oriented personalities, who usually have a female Japanese cartoon character, or maybe a furry, as their profile picture on GitHub.

Which is fine, whatever, but I worry that it suffers from groupthink and excludes different minds. Maybe it's hostile to plain people that just want to focus on programming? I suspect that people like Torvalds wouldn't survive long, and that's a shame.

And if you want to be really critical: Maybe the leadership is happy that specific people are leaving? Maybe burnout is a tool? Maybe it's a way of social control and censorship?

I personally hope that Rust finds more mainstream support and funding, because I'd love to work full-time in Rust for many years to come.

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2. camden+zw1[view] [source] 2024-01-17 20:05:15
>>canger+fS
Bingo. Nobody wants to recognize this issue, for various inconvenient reasons. Rust has a major insularity problem.
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