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If only the Rust thing was entirely foreseeable, without hindsight, even.

"Google absolutely will abandon you, Microsoft will force you to upgrade, #C will never really improve, #Cpp isn’t going to get smaller or easier and #Rust is going to become one ugly custody battle as big-tech fights to control the only chance we’ve ever had to move on from C." (https://mstdn.social/@kroc/110756824075903463)

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Kroc Camen (@[email protected])

Google absolutely will abandon you, Microsoft will force you to upgrade, #C will never really improve, #Cpp isn’t going to get smaller or easier and #Rust is going to become one ugly custody battle as big-tech fights to control the only chance we’ve ever had to move on from C.

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llogiq 3d ago

@Kroc I'd like to know where you get your info from. Rust is not owned by any large tech co, and never will be.

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Kroc Camen 3d ago

@llogiq If a company is sponsoring the Rust project, then I don’t think their employees should have commit access or be making decisions 🤷‍♂️

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FiolaKais 3d ago

@Kroc Why should anyone be barred from contributing to the rust project? To be honest, that sounds like fascism to me

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llogiq

@FiolaKais @Kroc To be honest, I don't see any facism angle here. Rather a misunderstanding about employment and sponsorship.

So those who decry the current state of sponsoring open source development (which includes having some open source devs employed by companies) appear to think that an individual employed by a company is automatically owned by them, no longer capable of independent thought and will only carry out the will of that company. Please correct me if I'm presenting a strawman here.

With that said, I do see a risk that a company that manages to get hold of a certain chokepoint to try a takeover (as recently happened in the ruby community if I am informed correctly). However, the #RustLang community is pretty diverse, with many companies employing and/or sponsoring folks along with people from universities, or sponsored by independent funds, and as always diverse environments are inherently less risky than monocultures.

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Rasmus Kaj 🎼🦀3d ago

@llogiq @FiolaKais @Kroc
Big tech companies sure are fighting to get control over Rust. Luckily, I agree with you (llogiq) that none of them are winning, and so far the "fight" may actually be beneficial to rust development, as many companies are sponsoring Rust development without getting any real power over it.