Rust is indeed woke

Rust, and resistance to it in some parts of the Linux community, has been in my feed recently. One undercurrent seems to be the notion that Rust is woke (and should therefore be rejected as part of culture wars).

I’m going to argue that Rust, the language, is woke. So the opponents are right, in that sense. Of course, as ever, dissing something for being woke is nasty and fascist-adjacent.

• Community
• Technological values - particularly, compared to C/C++
  • Ostensible values
  • Attitude to the programmer’s mistakes
  • The ideology of the hardcore programmer
  • Memory safety as a power struggle
  • Memory safety via Rust as a power struggle
• Notes
  • This is not a RIIR manifesto
  • Disclosure
  • On the meaning of “woke”
• Pithy conclusion

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