How did English become the most widely spoken language? Most certain through far more bloodshed than anything to do with the production of AI systems. If Rust’s association with AI is a reason to avoid using Rust, then yes, the social conditions surrounding English usage are sufficient grounds for a movement away from English as the lingua franca.

Sure, but this is way too much arguing for a minor and harmless statement. You seem to be making a huge deal out of one person on the internet saying that they stopped programming in Rust because they felt that rust projects were getting dominated by LLM output. They weren’t advocating for others to do the same. They simply stated a personal choice. I choose to let people make the choices that they want to make and state their reasons for doing so, especially if their choice has no effect on me.

Even the joke meme in their original post wasn’t making an accusation towards rust but simply saying that rust use in combination with all the other indicators in the meme (i.e., “I made”, “open source”, and “in a month”) point towards a project being vibe-coded.

Yes I wrote it. Oracle news today: https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-is-winding-down-oracle-deal-rent-ai-cloud-capacity-bloomberg-news-2026-11-06/ Other announcements related to MSFT were all during last 2 days.

Thanks.

Not at all, but that’s not what the conversation was about. It was about whether someone stopping using Rust was the same as someone stopping using English.

I’m not a free software developer (or a developer at all), but the idea that gen AI doesn’t concern the free software movement seems odd to me. I think there’s a pretty big space between being a big “intellectual property” proponent or copyright cheerleader and just not wanting to have your work taken without any regard for the conditions you set for sharing it. Someone may be fine with sharing their code for free as long as they get attribution or the derivative shares-alike, for instance. AI ignores the licenses that people release their code under, both copyleft and permissive.

This article mentions some of the concerns that the FSF has regarding gen AI: https://lwn.net/Articles/1040888/

This more recent article indicates that the FSF seems inclined to push for gen AI companies to open up their models: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/03/16/fsf-urges-ai-vendors-to-liberate-llms/5221192

Edit: PS Consider that if all IP law went away, all open source licenses would be moot. At that point, a lot of people who develop and release their software under open source licenses may stop doing so. Gen AI is already having a chilling effect on all creative endeavors that can be output as a digital output. The elimination of IP laws would make this chilling effect much more severe.

I agree that calling it “universal” is both an exaggeration and chauvinistic, but English is the most widely spoken language in the world, both in total combined as first plus second language and it’s by far the most spoken as a second language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

Rust is not in the same position among computer languages. Javascript holds that distinction, with Rust being way down, outside the top 10: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology (it’s still outside the top 10 in the 2026 survey, but the 2025 chart is much easier to read and interpret at a glance).

So Rust is indeed not the same as English, which makes it not an apt comparison. One can much more easily completely ignore and avoid Rust as a programming language than they can ignore and avoid English as a human language. They can surely both be ignored and avoided, but it’s much more difficult to do so with English.

What’s the source of the article? Did you write it?

I just heard on the radio this morning about Dhillon and how she had gotten rid of 300(!) career attorneys in the Civil Rights Division and installed a bunch of Trump cronies. This is going to take a while to clear up, despite them leaving.

flick off or flip off?

Sure, it makes sense now that I’ve seen the recommendations, but previously I just assumed that it worked instantly on contact. I’m guessing that the majority of people haven’t considered the mineral deposition rate of fluoride in toothpaste. :)

Aside from other reasons that other replies have mentioned, I’m going to guess that a good part of it may be people who have at least one favorite game that uses some type of kernel anti-cheat that doesn’t work on Linux. I think that that would stop many people from switching from Windows to Linux.

OK, got it.

Was just curious about what you were referring to specifically. Perhaps the German instances having to follow their speech restriction laws?

Click your username on the upper right, then Settings, then scroll down and you will see a checkbox where you flag your account as a bot account. You can also search your account settings page for “bot”.

BTW, the vast majority of people here go by nicknames instead of real names, for anonymity, privacy, and I suppose security reasons.

There’s also some instances that are seemingly trolling, some that seem state sponsored and local to certain nations that have to toe the line of the authoritarian regime opinions.

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I hear you. Something that I’ve been thinking about lately is how certain philosophies which sound good at first sometimes end up leading to strange or undesirable places, either because their original characteristics already pointed in that direction, because other groups co-opted the original idea for their own purposes, or both. I haven’t reached any conclusions, but it’s something that I wonder about occasionally.

Got it, thanks.

Almost certainly a libertarian.

Incidentally, here’s a nearly 30-year old internet essay related to this (please ignore the old-school ableism in the piece): Libertarianism Makes You Stupid

That would be a great result that I look forward to.

Same here. I’m glad your dentist told you though.

Brave is the commercial arm of a far right hate group.

Do you mind providing more details, for those of us who aren’t informed about this? Is it something aside from their CEO?