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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: news.groups.proposals
Subject: Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust?
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:14:18 EDT
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On 3/10/2025 6:46 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> [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?
> 
> 	- Dan C.

There is a newsgroup for rust already, alt.comp.lang.rust, that is not 
very active at all.  The reddit  https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/  group 
is fairly active comparatively.

Lynn