Today, I once again wake up worrying about Rust's future.
Why is a shitbag such as dtolnay still allowed to single-handedly maintain fundamental libraries for the ecosystem? Why is he part of Library API team? How is he not permabanned for single-handedly permanently damaging Rust by killing off comptime reflection over his racism? How is he not permabanned for the power play he attempted to pull with his "RFC" after pushing pre-compiled binary to serde without notice? Why are MIC companies routinely tolerated at Rust conventions? Why does no one talk about it, despite the problems not being solved? Has Ruby takeover taught people nothing? Will Rust survive another year without turning into fashtech?
So many questions. I think about them every time I use Rust, which is often.
Apropos of nothing.
Happy I use a dead language that has zero influence on the flow of capital. It's much quieter when there's less reason for a sole community of language users to exist. Like other dead languages, you can largely just ignore assholes and it doesn't matter because there's no room for them to suck the air out of. In other language communities it's much more important to respond as otherwise they take over. With Lisp there's nothing to take over in the first place.
My definition of a dead language is an economic one: there are no jobs for it, no academic clout surrounding working with/on it, there's little to no corporate funded conferences and so on. Its dead because there's no money to be made and thank god for that.