I got my first ever random contributor pull request for my little hobby project just the other day and was super excited about it. After looking it over and other work by the author, I suspect it could be AI written and that really took the wind out of my sails. I haven’t confirmed but I hate that I have to worry about it

I don’t hate Rust, but I do get annoyed by and suspicious of the evangelism for it I often see. This is by no means unique to Rust but it does seem to be seeing a very aggressive push even into trying to fix/replace tried and tested things that aren’t broken. It has that feeling of aggressively taking everything over.

Welcome! It can be a pretty fun place around here

Oh dang

Man, I miss when Linux felt like a refuge. It’s always been flawed of course but now it feels like everyone in positions of influence are embracing the awful