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The official Rust project account will no longer be active on X (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago* by neme@lemm.ee to c/rust@programming.dev

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https://x.com/rustlang/status/1908479478159818903

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 95 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Surprised it didn't rewrite it's own X with blackjack and concurrency

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[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 156 points 2 years ago (1 child)

wait until you hear about this project called lemmy

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 104 points 2 years ago*

Lemmy was written in Rust?

(Edit: damn, over 75% of the codebase is rust. Nice)

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[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm actually surprised there aren't already 20 alternatives to Twitter written in Rust

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 2 years ago

There could be. How would you know?

Anyway, I don't think the world needs 20 different alternatives to Twitter, just like we don't need 20 alternatives to Linux, Python, the W3C, or Rust.

What seems ideal is a single dominant system run by people whose authority comes from a broad consensus of the stakeholders, plus a limited number of competitors that could conceivably take over, but only if the dominant system is badly mismanaged. Having alternatives keeps the market leaders honest and provides space to try out new ideas that can either serve a different niche or be incorporated into the dominant system, but in a space where compatibility and network effects are so important, I want there to be a clear leader that most users can rally around, and that most developers can target to benefit the greatest number of users.

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