I Hate Memory Safe Low Level Languages

The most honest RFC template in existence. Rust developers proposing new features be like: "Here's my brilliant idea that would require someone else to do all the actual hard work." And then the alternatives section just cuts straight to the chase - "Don't do this." The perfect summary of open source feature requests where enthusiasm massively outweighs implementation willingness. The borrow checker might enforce memory safety, but it can't enforce follow-through on ambitious proposals!

The embedded systems world is having a full-blown affair with C/C++ while giving Rust the cold shoulder. Despite Rust's memory safety guarantees and zero-cost abstractions, embedded devs keep crawling back to their toxic exes C and C++. It's like watching someone choose dial-up when fiber is available because "we've always done it this way." The embedded community's relationship status with C/C++ is definitely: "It's complicated" – and by complicated, I mean "refusing to move on despite all the segfaults and buffer overflows."

Why fix what's broken when you can just throw it away and build it again from scratch in Rust? Developers turning their noses up at the sensible option of refactoring existing code because the siren call of rewriting everything in a shiny new language is just too tempting. Sure, it'll take 6 months longer, introduce 47 new bugs, and the business stakeholders will be pulling their hair out, but hey—at least you'll get to tell everyone at meetups that you're "memory safe" now.

OH. MY. CODE. The dating scene for programmers is just BRUTAL! Every single woman has her pick of the entire dev ecosystem - C++ guys, Python nerds, JavaScript hipsters - but there's only ONE arrow pointing to the Rust developer! 💅 That's right, honey! While the memory-leaking masses fight for attention, Rust developers are out here being the rare unicorns everyone wants. The rest are just sitting there with their garbage collection and undefined behaviors wondering why they're still single. Turns out being obsessed with ownership and borrowing isn't just for your code - it's relationship goals! 💯

Finally, a political compass that makes sense! Instead of left vs. right, we've got "System Lang" vs "Toy Lang" - because nothing starts a flame war faster than calling someone's favorite language a "toy." And instead of authoritarian vs libertarian, we've got "Obsolete Lang" vs "Nu Lang" - where COBOL programmers are still making bank while the rest of us chase shiny new frameworks every six months. The placement is savage. Assembly and C sitting proudly in the "real systems" corner while Python and Ruby hang out in the "scripting for children" zone. And poor Brainfuck got exiled to the furthest corner possible - exactly where it belongs. This is basically a Rorschach test for developers. Whatever quadrant your favorite language is in tells everyone exactly what kind of programmer you are... and whether anyone wants to sit next to you at lunch.

The meme perfectly encapsulates language strictness levels. Rust, with its compiler that would rather watch the world burn than let you deploy code with a type mismatch, is depicted as stressed SpongeBob. Meanwhile, Python—the language equivalent of "eh, whatever works"—is shown as maniacally happy SpongeBob who would gleefully let you cast a float to a car because why the hell not? One language stops you from shooting yourself in the foot; the other hands you a bigger gun and says "aim wherever."