Nathan "Lobotomized Ferret"

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Disgruntled Rust engineer 🦀
Nix aficionado ❄️
Emacs wizard 🧙
Fish Keeper 🐟
Climber 🧗

Occasionally blogs about cryptography and backup utilities. Also cats, which I have 5 of, due to circumstance beyond my control.

Bloghttps://stranger.systems
Dotfiles, System Config, and blobs of Nixhttps://git.stranger.systems/Nix
Other Socialshttps://stranger.systems/social/
Emacs configurationhttps://git.stranger.systems/thatonelutenist/doom.d

@adrienne @fasterthanlime

The "just don't talk about it, we don't know enough yet" attitude that's made its nest in the rust community and the pushback that the more critical elements of the community have received are honestly such incredible vehicles for perpetuating the toxicity

@adrienne @fasterthanlime

Agreed, I'd name names if I had them, but if I had enough information to have names, I would have been screaming them from the rooftops for ages by now.

I lost any shred of trust I had in rust leadership years ago now, and it is beyond frustrating and disappointing that it's taken this long for someone on the inside to go into even the little amount of detail that we got this round.

As far as I'm concerned, even once names get named, the remaining members of leadership still have a lot to reckon for before I'd consider them trustworthy, and I'm honestly not sure if I'd be satisfied by anything short of a complete turnover of leadership

@fasterthanlime

I just wanted to say thank you for finally speaking out about this.

I've been watching a lot of sketchy things going on in rust leadership second hand through various connections in the community, including moderating a secluded space where we've occasionally had those negatively affected by such decisions pop in, and it's been incredibly frustrating just _knowing_ that something is wrong, but having neither the platform nor the hard evidence to really do anything about it, and quite honestly, its sapped all the will to use rust in personal projects out of me.

Your speaking out on the subject finally gives me a little bit of cautious optimism about the situation.

@unascribed Yeah I have complaints about both ends of the packwiz UX lol. A utility to convert from packwiz to unsup does sound like a good first step though, something I might look into
I actually just ran into you in my federated timeline randomly lol, so I'm not aware of it. Doesn't look like quite what I want either, but I can see the appeal. I crave something highly structured with simple manifests that rely on a seperate lockfile or the like
@unascribed packwiz's, imo, awful UX has me seriously tempted to just write my own alternative at this point
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Developing Mastodon, I strive to use terminology that is familiar to as many people as possible so as to not put up unnecessary barriers in understanding. For this reason I am happy that we went away from calling posts "toots". It has always been a point of friction for people. Not that I dislike branding, quite the opposite, but in my experience receiving feedback over half a decade, it had a negative effect on the platform for little benefit.
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