[Info-vax] Rust language community in chaos

[John Reagan]

On Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at 4:38:13 PM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <snjdgp$9hn$3... at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
> 
> > It looks like Rust development is basically in meltdown as the entire 
> > Rust moderation team has just resigned. 
> > 
> > https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/23/rust_moderation_team_quits/ 
> > 
> > https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671 
> > 
> > Perhaps the next language that comes along to replace Rust can focus 
> > more on the "implementing and improving the language" bit and less on 
> > all the drama associated with all the Code of Conduct stuff. 
> > 
> > I make that comment because, so far, it looks like the latter is what 
> > this is about.
> And Python broke backward compatibility. 
> 
> Maybe it was good that I didn't take the advice to learn some newer 
> languages. :-]
At least the perl5 vs perl6 issue was fixed by renaming perl6 to raku.