@rustlang Congrats on 1.14! But I am disturbed that of the 144 contributors, I did not notice a single female name - not a healthy community
list; @Carols10cents is a co-author of the book, for example, but those comments don't appear there yet. That's a problem that
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Given that the first commit to the git repo was the code of conduct, I have found the Rust community to be incredible!
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I get that impression, but it’s a classic chicken-egg: more visible women->more stutent interest->more women
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Also if you have any women students interested in contributing to rust, I would be happy to mentor them!
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Great! Teaching a Prog Lang course starting January (Rust is one of the 4 languages). Will try to talk it up.
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Systems programming has been one of the more hostile areas for women to get into; I'm hoping Rust changes that.
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Yeah, Systems Programming and Programming Languages are both pretty pathetic for equitable representation.
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Hi @dmasonrose! Please check out one of our efforts in this area: https://github.com/rust-community/rustbridge …
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But it takes time. Also not many jobs in Rust yet; given women have less "hobby" time, it's not so surprising
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