> If there was a sports-like betting site for future decisions that major open source projects are going to make, I would put a thousand dollars on "Cargo/Crate

> If there was a sports-like betting site for future decisions that major open source projects are going to make, I would put a thousand dollars on "Cargo/Crates will implement namespaces." There is, sort of! Assuming you choose a semi-reasonable timeframe (5? 10 years?), I’d be happy to take the other side on Longbets. I believe there’s even a reasonable argument to be made that your bet is societally important, as the rules [1] require, based on your final paragraph. Roughly your take is that over time, efforts realize that the naïveté of youth misread the battle scars of what came before. crates.io having namespaces or not is just the mechanism for this debate :) [1] https://longbets.org/rules/ https://longbets.org/rules/