> As such, it is natural that bringing Rust into your project would over time result in it becoming more "woke", just like using Ruby would make it more likely that you attract Japanese contributors, or targeting Baikal CPUs would result in you getting pulled into the Russian orbit. The "woke" side themselves recognises this effect quite well, which is why they were so disturbed when Framework pushed Omarchy as a Linux distribution.

I think this analysis is basically accurate - there's no conspiracy or even deliberate agenda going on, it's just that the community surrounding Rust happens to have (at the moment, anyway) a relatively high number of American progressives, many of whom are openly interested in imposing American progressive ideological norms in spaces they care about (which is basically what we mean by the term "woke").

I think Rust is a good software tool and I would like to see it be as widely adopted and politically-neutral as C is, and used in all sorts of projects run by all sorts of people with all sorts of other agendas, political or otherwise. Consequently, I would like to see people and projects who do not agree with American progressive norms adopt the language and become active users of it, which will help dilute the amount of Rust users who are progressives. I myself am not an American political progressive and I have lots of issues with the stated politics of many well-known Rust developers.