This is an unfortunate, but I think necessary part of community growth. I really don’t think it’s possible to create a large community around a language that

This is an unfortunate, but I think necessary part of community growth. I really don’t think it’s possible to create a large community around a language that is business critical, and not have these kinds of setbacks where people get worked up and hurt each other’s feelings. Python has many of the same issues, where core devs and key maintainers go dark or behave badly. What Python does do pretty well, and what I like about it, is placing its core user front and center. For Python, that is the beginning programmer, and Python has a lot of empathy for him or her. What I also like about Python is a general willingness to have difficult conversations and back rebuttals with code snippets. I read difficult conversations by Bruce Patton a while back, and it wasn’t an easy read for me because I have problems of responding sometimes in a constructive manner, but I learned a lot and I would highly recommend it . I’m confident the Rust community will survive this and come out stronger than ever :)