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It seems no one had to rebrand Rust yet, but can you guarantee this will always be the case? Firefox was fine in debian until 2006.
Mozilla Foundation != Mozilla Corporation. Which is why there was an issue with branding.
The way that was resolved was with Firefox LTS.
This is great news, but I have to point it out. Some of the social media handles on the Board of Directors page are hilariously unreadable: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/board/ (Click the pictures to reveal them)
Not working for me (iOS/safari). That's a bit weird.
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In general it's a very traditional tech worker dilemma: Do I want to get a good salary working on interesting problems that is mostly of interests of big tech companies that make their money via arguably shady means, or do I want to earn an average salary working on boring problems and be 100% sure I have a clean conscience.
I'm guessing the approach is to have a quasi-parasitic relationship with the sponsors: You personally stay as little involved with the "bad parts" of the company and try to push the "good parts" forward while also pushing the open source tech forward (hopefully for the good of all humanity). That's how I have seen the relationship between Rust and Github (= Microsoft) play out so far too: Rust is very deeply relying on Github for pretty much everything while a good chunk of the individual team members critizize their involvement with ICE at every opportunity.
Announcements also from Mozilla, Amazon and Microsoft: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/02/08/mozilla-welcomes-th... https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/congratulations-rust... https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2021/02/08/micro...
I find it puzzling that aws uses rust so much yet don't have an official rust aws sdk
This is great news, but I have to point it out. Some of the social media handles on the Board of Directors page are hilariously unreadable: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/board/ (Click the pictures to reveal them)
The board's vote seems to be heavily biased in favor of large corporations, with half the seats for them, 2 for the community, and 3 for "project areas." Contrast this with the governance of GCC, which has all of them as community members or project areas.
The goal of the foundation is to work as a bridge between the Rust teams and the corporate world (e.g. sponsorship, licensing, etc). As the blog post notes, the actual development of the language is fully open and is comprised of RFCs and the like which allow anyone to contribute. It's the core team who oversee this process, not the foundation. In short the foundation works for Rust, not the other way around.
This [1] was from the keynote of the latest RustConf. While there's surely plenty of good the Rust project will manage to do regardless of these decisions, I can't help but think there's a small disconnect between "owning" the political role of Rust, and then surrendering half the board to the usual suspects.
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I find it puzzling that aws uses rust so much yet don't have an official rust aws sdk
I don't think any of these companies use Rust much. You may find teams here and there using it but the vast majority of the Rust type stuff is written in C++ or Java.
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The goal of the foundation is to work as a bridge between the Rust teams and the corporate world (e.g. sponsorship, licensing, etc). As the blog post notes, the actual development of the language is fully open and is comprised of RFCs and the like which allow anyone to contribute. It's the core team who oversee this process, not the foundation. In short the foundation works for Rust, not the other way around.
The foundation works for its board members. We can hope that the board members will work for Rust, but the structure of the board does nothing to check their power and influence. On the other hand, I do recognize that the board members are the ones bringing the funding to the table; maybe this was the best way to maximize their contributions. If the board's interests align well with the Rust community's interests, th…
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Currently: C, C++, Python, Go, JS, C#, Java, Lua (if that counts), Kotlin, Julia, Scala. I've dabbled in a bunch of other ones but haven't made anything noteworthy with them. You may notice a lack of other modern compiled languages like Zig, so take that bias in mind :)
I'm not trolling. I'm genuinely curious. I've always thought of languages just as tools and have never been fanatic about a particular one. I personally like C and Java but have no problem using other languages if they are the best for the job. I'm really curious to know what makes rust so special? Mind you that I know nothing about it.