For me, A totally cs newbee, the Rust team has established a great community.
I have learned a lot from the e-mentor(contribute to rust or rust lib directly with the guidelines from rust core developers).
Now I’m the founder of Rustacean group in my school.
Fun facts about Rust's growing popularity
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#12Rustaceans? Would recruiting agencies go for that in job ads? "Are you a top rustacean and looking for a challenge in AI and Big Data and want to work in an international team with young and dynamic rustaceans? "
Good point. The term doesn't sound good. I'd rather call myself a Rubyist or a Pythonista. What we call something matters. Presentation matters. Some geeks think they're hyper-rational, but do you turn up to a job interview in pyjamas? A new programming language should use a positive and cool name.
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#13Best fact: Rust users are apparently called Rustaceans. I did not know this, and have never seen this wonderful term before.
i've also seen rustafarians
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#14Rustaceans? Would recruiting agencies go for that in job ads? "Are you a top rustacean and looking for a challenge in AI and Big Data and want to work in an international team with young and dynamic rustaceans? "
Good point. The term doesn't sound good. I'd rather call myself a Rubyist or a Pythonista. What we call something matters. Presentation matters. Some geeks think they're hyper-rational, but do you turn up to a job interview in pyjamas? A new programming language should use a positive and cool name.
"Rust" is positive and cool. Job ads can just use "Rust programmer" instead of whatever cutesy demonym. I don't look at job ads often, but I don't recall seeing terms like "Rubyist" or "Pythonista" used in them.
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#15Best fact: Rust users are apparently called Rustaceans. I did not know this, and have never seen this wonderful term before.
i've also seen rustafarians
There's been a number of competing names (e.g. rustler) but rustacean won out because it has the advantage of being ideologically neutral and lacking other connotations.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been thinking about introducing it at work. There was a good talk at RustConf about how to introduce Rust to your company.
Do you have a link to it?
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#17Rustaceans? Would recruiting agencies go for that in job ads? "Are you a top rustacean and looking for a challenge in AI and Big Data and want to work in an international team with young and dynamic rustaceans? "
Good point. The term doesn't sound good. I'd rather call myself a Rubyist or a Pythonista. What we call something matters. Presentation matters. Some geeks think they're hyper-rational, but do you turn up to a job interview in pyjamas? A new programming language should use a positive and cool name.
Dunno - I think “Rustacean” sounds fine. Whereas “Pythonista” makes me think of Starbucks and hipsters (not necessarily a bad thing, but still), with “Rustacean”... I think of some solitary crab-like creature lurking in gloomy depths (literally, a “low level”)... robust, with a sturdy hard shell... content to exist without drawing a lot of attention to itself, but nevertheless a bit mysterious, intriguing.
Really, it’s a better analogy for Rust programs than programmers themselves, but associations don’t have to be exact. I see it as very much positive and cool.
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#18Best fact: Rust users are apparently called Rustaceans. I did not know this, and have never seen this wonderful term before.
I love my Python but "Pythonista" makes me think I'm selling beverages with funny names for their sizes. I love the demonym for Rust!
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#19Best fact: Rust users are apparently called Rustaceans. I did not know this, and have never seen this wonderful term before.
People on Lobste.rs are often addressed as Crustaceans and Rust folks as Rustaceans. I always remember both when I hear one.
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#20Rustaceans? Would recruiting agencies go for that in job ads? "Are you a top rustacean and looking for a challenge in AI and Big Data and want to work in an international team with young and dynamic rustaceans? "
Good point. The term doesn't sound good. I'd rather call myself a Rubyist or a Pythonista. What we call something matters. Presentation matters. Some geeks think they're hyper-rational, but do you turn up to a job interview in pyjamas? A new programming language should use a positive and cool name.
I don’t think I’ve seen “Pythonista” in a job description in a while, even among pretty casual hip startup job postings. I actually had forgotten that term, but to be fair I’ve been in the Ruby world for a while. :)
I think I’ve seen Rubyist here or there, but it’s still not common (based on my somewhat extensive Bay Area Ruby job search early this year). It’s also the most standard grammatical construction, and doesn’t sound too punny or playful at all (which can be a good thing depending on the tone you want to set on your resume or job posting).