Forking the code is "easy" (OK, maybe not based on the other comments), but anyway... Another (persistent) problem has been the crates.io namespace. You can f

Forking the code is "easy" (OK, maybe not based on the other comments), but anyway... Another (persistent) problem has been the crates.io namespace. You can fork actix, but then you'll need to come up with a new name for it, and then educate the wider community of that. It is a big hassle, and slows adoption. Adding onto the issue is that crates.io does not (yet) support the username/projectname naming scheme as on github and other popular code repositories. So it isn't enough to just people to go to a different username, you must use a new project name.