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The title is misleading although technically correct. They did respond just not with anything more than a "we'll get back to you". I do like the basics of his

The title is misleading although technically correct. They did respond just not with anything more than a "we'll get back to you". I do like the basics of his questions "who is committing code to Libra" and "why are using nightly build of Rust". I get the feeling he is not happy with it given his mention of "not how we usually did releases in the DOD" and pointing out the non-US coder. It will be interesting to see the technical response and his response to that.

MrMorden 7y ago
Of course Rust is international. Windows is international; Linux is international; VMS might possibly not be international. You'd think DoD would be buying Talos systems as fast as Raptor could spit them out, given all the talk about wanting things to be made in the USA, but even those will likely have parts from dozens of countries. I don't want to knock Rep. Riggleman too hard, since knowing what Github is (let alone how to use it) puts him in the top one or two percent of Congress; but DoD is by no means a paragon of software development practice. It cares far too much about compliance for the sake of compliance and far too little about whether that compliance enables business objectives such as security or reliability. (And waivers are easy to obtain when compliance makes things better, but difficult when compliance makes things worse.)
- epoch_100 7y ago
  In the video, Rep. Riggleman doesn't find issue with Rust being international; he instead notes that one of the primary committers to _Libra Core_ (not Rust) is Nigerian. I had a similar response to yours when I read the top-level comment, but watching the video it's clear that his issue is very much _not_ with Rust having an international development team.
  - protomyth 7y ago
    His issue is Libra having a international development (or more specifically random international development), and his issue with Rust is using the nightly builds instead of a stable release.

MrMorden 7y ago

Of course Rust is international. Windows is international; Linux is international; VMS might possibly not be international. You'd think DoD would be buying Talos systems as fast as Raptor could spit them out, given all the talk about wanting things to be made in the USA, but even those will likely have parts from dozens of countries. I don't want to knock Rep. Riggleman too hard, since knowing what Github is (let alone how to use it) puts him in the top one or two percent of Congress; but DoD is by no means a paragon of software development practice. It cares far too much about compliance for the sake of compliance and far too little about whether that compliance enables business objectives such as security or reliability. (And waivers are easy to obtain when compliance makes things better, but difficult when compliance makes things worse.)

epoch_100 7y ago
In the video, Rep. Riggleman doesn't find issue with Rust being international; he instead notes that one of the primary committers to _Libra Core_ (not Rust) is Nigerian. I had a similar response to yours when I read the top-level comment, but watching the video it's clear that his issue is very much _not_ with Rust having an international development team.
- protomyth 7y ago
  His issue is Libra having a international development (or more specifically random international development), and his issue with Rust is using the nightly builds instead of a stable release.