Rust: The wrong people are resigning

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# Rust: The wrong people are resigning

(Note: I usually blog at https://fasterthanli.me but I'm away for a couple days and wanted to make a statement)

Up until recently, I was part of two private online discussion spaces where a bunch of Rust people hung out.

So, whenever there was drama, like when the entire mod team resigned, or when a trademark draft got a lot of people seriously worried, or just recently when RustConf took back the keynote from ThePHD https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023  then JT resigned over it https://www.jntrnr.com/why-i-left-rust/ and Saoirse wrote about governance https://without.boats/blog/if-you-can-keep-it/, I had some place to go, to assess how serious things were this time around.

And most of the time, it turned out that the intentions were, in fact, good! But the execution was poor — or that there was a lack of resources, a lack of process, or a lack of manpower, or a deadline to hold, or it was just that person being that person again.

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dyowee · 29 May 2023 06:39

It seems Rust has a questionable leadership and there is drama, yet again. But it looks like a fantastic language to learn and use, and probably a great community.

DevotionGeo · 29 May 2023 21:52

I will not learn and/or use a fantastic language with a toxic leadership.

kokolegorille · 30 May 2023 00:15

There have been similar events in the Node world… with Douglas Crockford been removed from a talk

DevotionGeo · 30 May 2023 08:26

Oh. It’s sad!

I found the tweet on the Internet Archies.

I remember when Brian Ford gave his famous talk “Is Node.js Better?” at a JSConf around 10 years ago. The entire Node community responded in a very hostile way.

kokolegorille · 31 May 2023 15:36

Unfortunately Opensource project can also become toxic…

Too many people with different opinions

DevotionGeo · 1 June 2023 05:27

Yes, you’re right! I hope the Rust leadership rectifies their mistake. I like the language.