KFears& 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 13

Today, I once again wake up worrying about #Rust 's future.

Why is a shitbag such as #dtolnay still allowed to single-handedly maintain fundamental libraries for the ecosystem? Why is he part of Library API team? How is he not permabanned for single-handedly permanently damaging Rust by killing off comptime reflection over his racism? How is he not permabanned for the power play he attempted to pull with his "RFC" after pushing pre-compiled binary to serde without notice? Why are MIC companies routinely tolerated at Rust conventions? Why does no one talk about it, despite the problems not being solved? Has #Ruby takeover taught people nothing? Will Rust survive another year without turning into #fashtech?

So many questions. I think about them every time I use Rust, which is often.

Apropos of nothing.

#RustLang #serde #FOSS #OSS #OpenSource

Show threadvavakado Dec 13

@KFears wait dtolnay is racist? where can i read more about that?

also why the hell lately all the tech is becoming fascist, as a trans jewish individual this shit is worrying as fuck

Show threadEd PageDec 13

@vavakado @KFears this is referring to a situation a couple years ago where a chain of actions from several well intentioned people caused a keynote for RustConf to be canceled which was kicked off by dtolnay which people quickly assumed was driven by racism before the facts were known which was compounded by at least one well known Rust community member (but outside the project) making a racist comment that the speaker was only chosen for diversity (they were not). The weight of blame put on dtolnay was made worse by them taking limited responsibility for their part including delaying an apology until they were outed and then doing a poor one.

It also has not killed off comptime reflection, just that approach from that contributor. There is on going work in that area by a compiler team member that I am much more hopeful about the design of.

This isn't that I'm a dtolnay apologist. Its just that to work to solve problems you need to make sure you know what the problems are.

Show threadMichał Fita
@epage @vavakado @KFears Wouldn't be fair to call person the discussion is about to the whiteboard? @dtolnay seem to be on the fediverse.
Dec 13 at 7:55pmWeb
Show threadKFears& 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 13
@michalfita @epage @vavakado @dtolnay To be blunt, it is not his opinion I care about, but whatever rocks your boat, I guess.
Show threadbeepsterDec 13
@michalfita the only thing anyone needs to hear from him is his being proud of his time at palintir.