Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust?

cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:

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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/).  Rust is a
compiled, type- and memory- safe language that has been in open
development since 2010, and is rapidly gaining adoption in
industry and research.  It often comes up in discussions related
to C and C++, but no existing group is dedicated to it.
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Thoughts?

alt.comp.lang.rust already exists, and has low traffic (56 articles
since 2022).  I see a post there from 2023-09-21, subject "Soon
comp.lang.rust", about an earlier attempt to create comp.lang.rust.
It looks like that effort didn't go anywhere.

I like the idea of a comp.lang.rust newsgroup, and I'll subscribe to
it if it's created.  But I'm not convinced it would be successful,
and I won't have much to contribute myself.

Creating it would have been obvious back in Usenet's heyday.
Today -- well, it couldn't hurt.

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