Comment by PoignardAzur
2 years ago
> The greatest enemy to wider Rust adoption is that, despite having ample material about the past mistakes of their forerunners, the Rust community is only learning from those that relate to language design and ignoring all the other ones.
What? How is that your takeaway from the thread?
There's only a few mentions of Rust and none of them are abrasive.
There are quite a few abrasive replies upthread from some Rustaceans. They don't mention Rust by name, just like not every one of Drepper's mails contained the world "glibc", but they're in the same vein.
This is particularly important at a point in a language's lifetime when community support is not just the best, but usually the only kind of support you can get. I like Rust and I'm very productive with it, but if anyone thinks I'm going to ask junior devs on my team to put up with the kind of stuff I see upstream, they're wrong. Just because we developed a thick skin for it on FOSS mailing lists back in the nineties doesn't mean everyone needs to.
If you see poor behavior in the project, call it out. I would personally be interested in being made aware of it to help eliminate it, but the moderation team[1] exists specifically to deal with this.
1: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/moderation
Life's too short.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "upthread". Do you mean in this HN thread? Or in a mailing list associated with the commit OP points to? If so, do you have a link to said mailing list?
Yeah, I meant up in this HN thread.
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