Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust?

From	Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups	news.groups.proposals, comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.c, comp.programming
Subject	Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust?
Date	2025-03-10 17:35 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<20250310114140.525@kylheku.com> (permalink)
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On 2025-03-10, Dan Cross <cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
> [Note: Followup-To: set to news.groups.proposals]
>
> I'd like to open informal discussion around possibly creating a
> new newsgroup, comp.lang.rust, for discussion of the Rust
> programming language (https://rust-lang.org/).

Grownups interested in Rust should have a place for discussing it in
which "anything goes", and Usenet is the best forum in the world for
that.

Now, I strongly suspect that a Rust newsgroup will be ignored by pretty
much the entire current Rust demographic---but it doesn't matter.

Usenet has no security.  People can use fake identies easily.  The
authenticty of next to nothing can be ascertained.  It's not a "safe"
environment. Anyone can say anything. You cannot enforce anything
resembling a code of conduct.

Core Rust development discussions (the sane people) are certainly not
going to move to Usenet, where they cannot enforce their rules.

Most of the remaining demographic clustered around Rust cannot wrap
their heads around that something like Usenet is even allowed to exist.
It mainly consists of paranoid, security-obsessed freaks who are running
from something, and includes a surprising number of social activists.

A Rust forum repugnant to them could foster alterantive narratives.
It would be a benefit to Rust, even if in all likelihood small.

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Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-10 07:46 -0400
  Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-03-10 17:35 -0400
  Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> - 2025-03-10 17:35 -0400
  Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> - 2025-03-10 17:35 -0400
    Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-11 08:43 -0400
      Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> - 2025-03-13 14:49 -0400
        Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-13 15:54 -0400
        Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> - 2025-03-14 14:11 -0400
          Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-14 18:06 -0400
  Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> - 2025-03-10 17:35 -0400
  Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2025-03-10 17:35 -0400
    Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? NewsGroups Are Dead <noreply@invalid.com> - 2025-03-10 23:14 -0400
      Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2025-03-11 08:12 -0400
        Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2025-03-11 16:54 -0400
          Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> - 2025-03-13 14:50 -0400
      Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Tristan Miller <tmiller@big-8.org> - 2025-03-14 16:30 -0400
    Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Tristan Miller <tmiller@big-8.org> - 2025-03-14 16:20 -0400
      Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2025-03-14 17:32 -0400
  Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-03-10 17:35 -0400
  Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-03-10 17:35 -0400
    Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-03-10 23:14 -0400
  Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2025-03-10 23:14 -0400
    Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-04-09 20:49 -0400
      Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com> - 2025-04-10 19:53 -0400
        Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.meow.org.invalid> - 2025-04-11 09:34 -0400
  Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-03-10 23:14 -0400
  Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Beej Jorgensen <beej@beej.us> - 2025-03-11 16:54 -0400
  Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-28 18:58 -0400
    Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-08-29 04:46 -0400
    Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-08-29 14:14 -0400
      Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-08-30 16:20 -0400
    Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-08-30 16:20 -0400
    Re: Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? ReK2 Hispagatos <rek2@usenet_reborn.tui> - 2026-08-31 13:30 -0400

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