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> I am confident that professionally obfuscated malicious code would be undetected for years There was even a contest for underhanded code (malicious code that, if found, someone could plausibly claim that it was just a honest programmer mistake rather than intentional malware), it was pretty cool https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/72v194/the_2016_under... And there were talks to revive it https://github.com/rust-community/team/issues/256

The idea was briefly kept alive in the form of the Underhanded Rust Contest[0], announced in 2016, but there were some practical problems organising it, according to an attempt in 2019 to revive it again.[1] [0] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/12/15/Underhanded-Rust.html [1] https://github.com/rust-community/team/issues/256

Good idea. I noted that for next year's survey [1]. One of our big initiatives this year is working on our ergonomics [2]. I'm not sure if we can ever get as approachable as Python, but we've been working hard on trying to make the language easier. Results are starting to come out over the next couple releases. Things will hopefully be a bit better if/when you try the language. Please let us know if you need any help! [1]: https://github.com/rust-community/team/issues/160#issuecomme... [2]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/03/02/lang-ergonomics.html

> http://homu.io goes a bit further (it actually triggers CI builds of the merge results to check they are okay), but it seems it is currently unmaintained. barosl apparently hasn't had the time to work on it, and homu-as-a-service has apparently stopped working some time ago. After discussing it with barosl Rust has apparently moved to the Servo fork of it: https://github.com/servo/homu No bors/homu as a service at this point though, sadly. https://github.com/rust-community/team/issues/41 https://github.com/barosl/homu/issues/122 https://github.com/barosl/homu/issues/151

That's a reasonable question! I put that on our list for the next survey: https://github.com/rust-community/team/issues/28#issuecommen...

Rust Community Team lead here. It is fine if people don't consider themselves underrepresented, we just want to be proactive about discovering if people end up self selecting themselves out of our community because they don't feel welcome. Furthermore, we are starting some initiatives to focus growing a diverse group of participants (https://github.com/rust-community/RustBridge), and so we need some baselines to see if we are successful or not. We did have a number of categories that people could select from. Our plan for next year is to identify groups from the free text for next year. We are tracking our improvement plans here: https://github.com/rust-community/team/issues/28