Comment by simonask

Yeah, one problem in Rust is that a number of very fundamental ecosystem libraries are written by a handful of high-profile people. Often people who are also working on the standard library or the Rust compiler. Rust developers usually know their names and SoMe handles.

It's a problem because those people become overworked, and eventually have to abandon things. The deprecation of `serde_yaml` was and is a huge, huge problem, especially without any functional replacement. There was no call for new maintainers, or for someone to take over the project. I can understand the reasons why (now you're suddenly auditing people, not code), but it sucks.