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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 5d 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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soc 4d ago

@llogiq @Kroc Last time I checked, Amazon owning most governance positions in Rust was a real problem.

Has that improved in the meantime?

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llogiq 4d ago

@soc @Kroc what do you mean by "owning governance positions"? If you mean "sponsor Rustaceans who hold those positions", your argument gets quite spurious.

It's always the same doomsaying with you folks. Either the project is doomed because people bringing it forward are unpaid and burning out or it's doomed because the same folks are "owned" by big tech.

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soc

@llogiq @Kroc
> what do you mean ... if you mean

You can play name games all you want, this was brought up by Rust devs themselves:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28513130.

> always the same doomsaying with you folks

Perhaps it's intellectually taxing to you, but have you considered that "you folks" are different people that can hold different opinions?

Kroc Camen (@[email protected])

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