> Also, Rust is an open source ecosystem, and people using it should feel compelled to consider writing the missing pieces they need for the benifit of the comm

> Also, Rust is an open source ecosystem, and people using it should feel compelled to consider writing the missing pieces they need for the benifit of the community. It’s also odd to say that Rust doesn’t have what you need, it sounds like there are C libraries that already do what you want, and Rust can wrap C. This sounds like a great idea, but not everyone has the time and resources to port libraries from one language to another. It should be trivial to wrap C libraries, but errors do show up, and a once one day task now takes a week to iron out. If you have 4 or 5 libraries that are missing, you've now lost a month of development work that could have been spent adding new features. Additionally, not everyone wants to maintain open source projects. There's a huge amount of responsibility that comes with being a maintainer, and the OSS community isn't always a friendly, fun place. Rachel has some great examples in her blog [1]. [1]: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/10/09/moat/ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/10/09/moat/