Rust is a really cool language, but all this drama has been very off-putting. I sincerely hope the team gets their shit together and learns from this.

I doubt the corporate sponsorship has anything to do with the recent drama in the dev team. I also think it’s a very good sign big companies are sponsoring Rust, as it shows they believe in its potential and help its adoption.

I actually deleted my original comment, because I thought it didn’t contribute too much in the discussion. I restored it, as you went through the trouble to write such a long and thoughtful reply.

I see where you’re coming from, and I believe it’s a fair concern. My thinking is more along the line that if I’m ever to write Rust for a paid gig, it has to be widely adapted and the ecosystem has to be mature (at the moment most jobs using Rust where I live are some sort of web3/crypto shops, and I’m not interested in those). I don’t think that will happen any time soon without endorsement and sponsorship by the major corporations.

I have some experience working in the .NET ecosystem, and it’s not all that bad. One of the few Microsoft products I don’t hate.

I have no idea what’s going on here.

Edit: Ok, just went to the subreddit. I see now, carry on.

That’s a cool graph, but contains something I find rather suspicious. Namely, it puts Homo neanderthalensis on the step before Homo sapiens. This is misleading, since HN and HS existed at the same time, and HS did not evolve from HN. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal for details.

In any case, I’ll definitely show this to my kids tomorrow. I always lecture them about evolution and how we can trace so much of our biological world to some evolutionary step millions of years ago. This graph should drive the point home better than any of my incoherent ramblings.

“latest changes”

“fix bug”

“commit to save changes”

The meltdown happening right now is surely a spectacle to watch on the side lines.

The free VC money to tech ran dry, as the interest rates began to rise over the past year or so. I wonder if Reddit is feeling the pain and they’re desperate enough to pull all this shit? Or are they trying to do an IPO before they run out of money and now try to push up any possible revenue, including the recent lay-offs?

In any case, keep the pop corns warm and close.

Where’s the actual questionable content? All I could find was a Mastodon thread claiming the devs have shitty opinions without any links to any actual people raising these opinions. The best I can do is guess they are referring to lemmygrad, which indeed looks like a brain dead shit hole of insanity, but how does that relate to the developers again? A bit more clear-cut presentation would be greatly beneficial, as this level of discussion is FUD as best.

Link to the said essays, so it’s clear what we’re dealing with here: https://github.com/dessalines/essays

Ok, so the guy likes his communism. I do find it weird (and a bit stupid), but he can’t control the instances he hasn’t started, and doesn’t directly benefit from them. So it’s very hard to see the problem here.

Having made the transition a few days ago myself, I hesitate to call it the smart part of Reddit. However, I tend to believe the early adopter crowd and the ones who can figure out Lemmy (My gosh, so difficult! The UX is not exactly the same as Reddit!) are somewhat more interesting than the people who would just accept the upfuckery of Reddit and stay there.