Aside from hatred of Rust and Rust developers there is a bigger problem. The Rust guys are twisting the C developers' arms to iron out API semantics because there is so much behavior and API usage that can't be defined in C and it's driving C devs insane. The Rust people are doing the right thing but doing the right thing is extremely annoying for the C devs.
The last drama wasn't about the guy not liking drama, he just don't like nor want to maintain a codebase with two languages, but I think they really need to say it directly instead of calling it canser and leaving people to think he was calling rust cancer and not multiple languages codebase cancer
Im pretty sure he specifically said the cancer was trying to inter-op 2 languages in a code base and not Rust. Even went on to say that he thinks Rust is good and recommends people implement new Greenfield projects in it.
> What does social media have to do with bad code, though?
Nothing. That's why this was said:
>> *There's a deeper issue* in open-source culture where harshness and gatekeeping drive away passionate contributors.
It's separate gatekeeping.
I entertained getting involved in the kernel for about 3 days, in college. The process is so complex, I just went on to do other fun things. The drama will turn off others. Organizational apathy is much worse, imo. I have quit jobs for this reason and that was when I got paid to stay.
I disagree. Provoking up a mob on social media will not endear you to anyone. You're just making the gatekeeper's jobs harder, and since their job is hard enough, they will simply gatekeep you to simplify things.
Regardless of whether you think the project should be maintained differently, that's not your call, that's their call. Fork it if you want different policies.
Isn't that also what Linus is doing but on a professional forum, which is even worse? The issue comes down to de-escalation, and there wasn't enough on both sides. It's also not unreasonable to expect more from a figure head who is a role model in open-source development in general.
A maintainer's job is to keep contributors on track and in line so the project moves in the right direction, and he did so on the forum in which it's supposed to happen. Not sure what the issue is.
