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Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative (ladybird.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Taken from the wikipedia page on rust:

On February 8, 2021, the formation of the Rust Foundation was announced by its five founding companies (AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla).[36][37] In a blog post published on April 6, 2021, Google announced support for Rust within the Android Open Source Project as an alternative to C/C++.[38]

Four out of five founding companies are evil to the bone, with only Mozilla being somewhat reputable. That does not give me much confidence, sadly.

On November 22, 2021, the Moderation Team, which was responsible for enforcing community standards and the Code of Conduct, announced their resignation "in protest of the Core Team placing themselves unaccountable to anyone but themselves[39]"

How am I not surprised?

In May 2022, the Rust Core Team, other lead programmers, and certain members of the Rust Foundation board implemented governance reforms in response to the incident.[40]

At least that. However, I don't care enough for the time being to spend my morning on reading what exactly they implemented.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Rust Foundation very deliberately does not control the development of Rust. There has been issues with the moderation team in the past but I think they're actually resolved today. And let me just assure you that Rust is not the only language project with problems and the fact that they have been talked about and discussed in the open and resolved is a sign of maturity and trust, not a bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I suppose there are problems in many teams, yes - the majority of humanity is just not mature enough to treat each other professionally :/

Still - 4 out of the 5 founding companies being pure evil does not fill me with confidence :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The language existed long before the foundation. The foundation is purely there to support the language.