@vavakado Sophia, one of the people who resigned over it, put it in no uncertain terms that racism is one of the reasons: https://www.sophiajt.com/why-i-left-rust/

The summary by Amos is very centrist, but it provides a good overview into all the statements made (you can notice how toothless they are, but at least they are corporately apologetic): https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-rustconf-keynote-fiasco-explained

Then, dtolnay wrote his own perspective, 3 months after the fact, in which he gave a non-apology and suggested that ThePhdDev wanted to do the talk much later and was "pressured" into doing it early. This is utter bullshit, ThePhdDev had regular nervousness and was encouraged many times, he wanted to give that talk.

ThePhdDev rightfully exploded on Fedi for this fucker, being one of the most vocal enemies of that talk, saying this gross lie and half-assing a non-apology. You'll have to forgive me; I don't have a link to it handy. I hope it should still be available.

#Rust #RustLang #dtolnay

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

@vavakado Sophia, one of the people who resigned over it, put it in no uncertain terms that racism is one of the reasons: https://www.sophiajt.com/why-i-left-rust/

The summary by Amos is very centrist, but it provides a good overview into all the statements made (you can notice how toothless they are, but at least they are corporately apologetic): https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-rustconf-keynote-fiasco-explained

Then, dtolnay wrote his own perspective, 3 months after the fact, in which he gave a non-apology and suggested that ThePhdDev wanted to do the talk much later and was "pressured" into doing it early. This is utter bullshit, ThePhdDev had regular nervousness and was encouraged many times, he wanted to give that talk.

ThePhdDev rightfully exploded on Fedi for this fucker, being one of the most vocal enemies of that talk, saying this gross lie and half-assing a non-apology. You'll have to forgive me; I don't have a link to it handy. I hope it should still be available.

#Rust #RustLang #dtolnay

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