r/rustjerk is a subreddit with 24k members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses rust, tired, worst, error, and language.
Like C++, but with more karma.
Popular Themes in r/rustjerk
#1
Pain & Anger
: "One line, no unsafe, no unwrap -> crashes the entire linux kernel. And "people" have the gall to call this a "safe" programming language."
15 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "New to Rust. Am I doing something wrong?"
5 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "🚀 Introducing `cargo-fund`. 🔥🔥🔥 Register to generate instant revenue stream for your crates. 🤖"
2 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Hey guys I have an idea for what you could actually re-write, instead of the 7567th vim clone"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/rustjerk
#1
Rust
: "Getting started with Rust"
39 posts
#2
Tired
4 posts
#3
Worst
3 posts
#4
Error
2 posts
#5
Language
2 posts
#6
Programming
: "Tired of your absolutely boring in-memory filesystems like tmpfs or ramdisk? Meet bevy_fuse - innovative ECS-driven filesystem! Store your files directly as entities in Rust-based Bevy game engine in an absolutely totally sane manner."
2 posts
#7
Lifetimes
: "Dealing with Lifetimes"
2 posts
#8
Security
: "This RustSec situation is crazy."
2 posts
#9
Yo
: "Yo they turned where clauses from rust into a real thing"
2 posts
#10
Hate
1 post
Flair Used in r/rustjerk
#1
Zealotry
: "C++ devs be like..."
7 posts
#2
Well, actually
: "Avoiding inheritance is a skill issue"
4 posts
#3
MOD APPROVED
: "He’s literally like me"
3 posts
#4
(not a cult)
: "Rust isn't a language, it's a cult."
3 posts
#5
RIIR
: "Google worldwide outage caused by bad error handling and null pointer exception: Should have written it in rust!"
3 posts
#6
/r/playrust
: "Kafka programmers lost the battle Rust programmers won"
1 post
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Last updated: August 24, 2026