Before LLMs, the greatest, most widespread pollutant of the software development psychosphere was "rewrite it in Rust."
I have explained this enough times while sober that I shouldn't have to defend it to some drive-by rando while full of Steel Reserve. And yet!
At this point I instantly mentally categorize it as reply guy behavior. I don't mean that in a totally gendered way. But I mean it's kind of this energy, so if that gives you gender dysphoria then maybe don't show up in my mentions expecting to have everybody else conform to your preferences.
It's probably the best confirmation I could get about not being a chaser, that I'm willing to alienate swathes of the transfem Rust community (most of whom I'm actually chill with) because I stand by my "RIIR is viral disrespect" principles, even knowing not everyone draws the "usage vs evangelism" line I do.
Nov 8, 2026, 7:46 PM@MaddieM4@raphus.social i literally had a Rust fanatic, who was trans themselves, misgender me because "writing programs in C is toxic masculinity". i shit you not
@pup I was literally going to say "OH I SAW THAT POST AND RESPONDED TO IT" but then I realized, it was probably a different trans person posting the same thing in a different place.
Nov 8, 2026, 10:37 PM@MaddieM4@raphus.social nah, this was something that was said to me in a reply a couple years back