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From: Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust?
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:42:02 +0000
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On 10/03/2025 14:14, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
> 
>> [Note:  Followup-To: set to news.groups.proposals]
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> I am in favor of creating comp.lang.rust, and hereby
> officially give Dan Cross my proxy in any voting.
> 
> If comp.lang.rust is created, I expect I will at least
> try reading it for a while.  I have had a longstanding
> interest in learning rust, and have been frustated by
> how horrible the existing explanatory materials are.

There is an alt.comp.lang.rust - but it has very little traffic - 
comp.lang.rust would be better.