Personal pet theory that may also play into it: Trans people are also often in information security roles. Potentially, because when you have to hide your real identity, you start to get good at it.
And Rust also has various security benefits, especially when compared to C, but also when compared to garbage-collected languages (race conditions are largely prevented).
also because on the Internet you can just be the opposite gender and not have to correct everyone all the time, or just be anonymous and not have a gender
Rust is a programming language
Hm OK. That I know…
The joke is that trans people in the tech community are typically developers+Linux users with a propensity to prefer Rust for a programming language.
A lot of people have been pushing for Rust to be incorporated into the Linux kernel more, rather than being mostly C.
It’s a joke based on a stereotype.
Wait how did that happen?
Personal pet theory that may also play into it: Trans people are also often in information security roles. Potentially, because when you have to hide your real identity, you start to get good at it.
And Rust also has various security benefits, especially when compared to C, but also when compared to garbage-collected languages (race conditions are largely prevented).
also because on the Internet you can just be the opposite gender and not have to correct everyone all the time, or just be anonymous and not have a gender