> Agreed. After what Oracle has done with Java, I am hesitant when corporations come bearing gifts. I honestly don’t know what to make of that comparison. On o

> Agreed. After what Oracle has done with Java, I am hesitant when corporations come bearing gifts. I honestly don’t know what to make of that comparison. On one hand, as a sailing fan, I’d love to own a boat competing in the America’s Cup (1), on the other hand I can’t really see why you insult us that way. On a more serious note: Companies with money will enter (and already have entered) the rust space, but unlike Java which was designed as a proprietary language and never free as open source, the rust language cannot be owned the way oracle owns java. So in that regard I wouldn’t worry. That doesn’t mean that all players will be well intentioned, but the leverage a hostile player can gain is substantially more limited. (1) The Wannsee certainly would make a great training ground for Team Ferrous!