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Mozilla sounds like your average PHB-led corporation. This is also one of the reasons I'm skeptical about Rust, since Mozilla is the backbone of Rust developme
by blub 8y ago
Mozilla sounds like your average PHB-led corporation.
This is also one of the reasons I'm skeptical about Rust, since Mozilla is the backbone of Rust development. They don't strike me as an organisation that can shepherd a programming language long term and with their market share taking a nose dive they're bound to get even more desperate and cut non-essential projects or make new data-sharing partnerships.
Anyways, good luck on your next adventure. Based on your work, you don't deserve to be the lowest paid in the team...
- steveklabnik 8y agoMozilla doesn't really "shepherd" Rust development. We've constructed the Rust project so that Mozilla cannot control it; decisions are made via consensus, and Mozilla employees make up ~10% of the overall Rust team. There's never been some sort of mandate to do something specific with Rust from upon high, and I don't expect there to ever be. If they tried, it wouldn't work!
- Jare 8y agoThe big concern is not that it wouldn't work, it is that they might try, and that you may have been one of the things preventing that from happening. All the best luck going forward, because you absolutely deserve it.
- pcwalton 8y agoI can assure you that Mozilla will not try to take control of Rust development. (It's unclear to me what that would even mean anyway. Rust is getting pretty mature, and the direction of the language is largely fixed at this point.)
- steveklabnik 8y agoIf that's your worry, then you should be relieved by this change. This is one more person who is involved with decisions in Rust who isn't employed by Mozilla. That said, to repeat, I don't believe this is something Mozilla would ever try to do. And thanks.
- miloignis 8y agoWhich is fantastic - I'm very glad that the people of the Rust project were so forward thinking. Thanks for all of your work so far - I know it's helped me and so many others get started using Rust, which I managed to be able to use for a new project at work, where it has been a joy. All the best, and I hope an even better opportunity comes your way!
- dochtman 8y agoI understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure I fully agree. If you quit a position where you get paid full time to work on Rust because of reasons having to do with your working relationship, maybe MoCo doesn't control the project, but it clearly has an important influence.
- pcwalton 8y agoUltimately, if you regard money as somehow inherently corrupting, you're never going to be satisfied unless nobody is getting paid to work on the project. Even a foundation has to get its funding from somewhere.
- pcwalton 8y ago> This is also one of the reasons I'm skeptical about Rust, since Mozilla is the backbone of Rust development. The most important thing is that Mozilla's management has never tried to control the direction of Rust. That's more than can be said for most other languages with corporate backing.
- nicoburns 8y agoWhat does "PHB" mean? (Google isn't giving me any answers)