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Well, that makes me a tad less enthusiastic about Rust.
I doubt Zuckerberg will be personally involved. It will be all engineers.
Can anyone speak to what power this gives them in the rust foundation, other than just good will and the dependence on funding?
Too much. It goads people in the Rust community to pretend to think Facebook is well-meaning company. I'm going to continue thinking Facebook doesn't care about people, even when they're being killed by the thousands, and I'm more comfortable doing that as someone who uses Vue and Python and not Rust. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-45449938 Edit: I realized I'm slowly getting into Deno, which is based on Rus…
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The kinds of things that Facebook most often receives flak for would be difficult to pursue though the layer of indirection that is sponsoring a foundation dedicated to the Rust programming language. Similarly, since Facebook isn't a software vendor, the kinds of things that you might achieve by securing undue influence within the Rust Foundation don't really benefit them.
But what's in it for Facebook then? They're spending real money, there's got to be something for them to benefit from?
(I work at Facebook on a team that uses Rust)
Can anyone speak to what power this gives them in the rust foundation, other than just good will and the dependence on funding?
Too much. It goads people in the Rust community to pretend to think Facebook is well-meaning company. I'm going to continue thinking Facebook doesn't care about people, even when they're being killed by the thousands, and I'm more comfortable doing that as someone who uses Vue and Python and not Rust. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-45449938 Edit: I realized I'm slowly getting into Deno, which is based on Rus…
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Well, that makes me a tad less enthusiastic about Rust.
It had to happen, the only way to make a programming language successful is to have it backed by most big tech companies.
Same for projects other than programming languages, e.g. Linux.
I don't feel comfortable with corporate-driven FOSS. I'll stick with community languages.
Well, that makes me a tad less enthusiastic about Rust.
Well, that makes me a tad less enthusiastic about Rust.
Rust should include in their license: "The Software/Language shall be used for Good, not Evil" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_not...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The kinds of things that Facebook most often receives flak for would be difficult to pursue though the layer of indirection that is sponsoring a foundation dedicated to the Rust programming language. Similarly, since Facebook isn't a software vendor, the kinds of things that you might achieve by securing undue influence within the Rust Foundation don't really benefit them.
But what's in it for Facebook then? They're spending real money, there's got to be something for them to benefit from?
It seems entirely possible that, even putting aside the PR, they're concerned about making sure a robust modern systems language stays around/thvives so that they have a robust modern systems language to use.
This is a great step for the Rust Foundation and a sign that Rust is transitioning successfully to a foundation model rather than a Mozilla-centric organization. It looks like some people are worried about Facebook's influence on Rust, but that doesn't seem like a huge concern to me. Facebook isn't going to want to influence Rust in any particularly "Facebooky" way since it's such a deep-in-the-infrastructure compone…
Does anyone know what the financial requirements are to be a platinum or silver level member of the Rust Foundation? I clicked around on their website but couldn't find the answer.
[0] https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-worl...