DISCLAIMER: I did work on some Rust code (XML parser for Servo), but I'm not Rust dev by any stretch of imagination. I haven't touched it in months/years tbh.

DISCLAIMER: I did work on some Rust code (XML parser for Servo), but I'm not Rust dev by any stretch of imagination. I haven't touched it in months/years tbh. My daily grind is Java. And I've seen enough idiots opening the plastic and licking the glow-in-the-dark knife in Java. It always leads to fun and interesting problems. By fun I mean "Get me out of this hell" and by interesting I mean "I obviously need more drugs to understand this code". > Ah, so that's what happened to the Actix developer. What a welcoming community! No. He realized his mistake and isolated himself. Here is the approximate recollection of events regarding his work on Actix: ------- Have a safe function that does the same thing as your garbled mess of unholy unsafe abomination. Use unsafe. Gotta go fast! ------- People submit PR to fix your unsafe hell spawns. Reject! Gotta go fast. ------- People call you out on it. Delete all the code. No code = fast. ------- In the end, he had a change of heart set new maintainers and restored the project. Then went off to write code to benchmark in C. All's well that ends well.