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The goal of the foundation is to work as a bridge between the Rust teams and the corporate world (e.g. sponsorship, licensing, etc). As the blog post notes, the
by ChrisSD 6y ago
The goal of the foundation is to work as a bridge between the Rust teams and the corporate world (e.g. sponsorship, licensing, etc). As the blog post notes, the actual development of the language is fully open and is comprised of RFCs and the like which allow anyone to contribute. It's the core team who oversee this process, not the foundation.
In short the foundation works for Rust, not the other way around.
- dfabulich 6y agoThe foundation works for its board members. We can hope that the board members will work for Rust, but the structure of the board does nothing to check their power and influence. On the other hand, I do recognize that the board members are the ones bringing the funding to the table; maybe this was the best way to maximize their contributions. If the board's interests align well with the Rust community's interests, then this could turn out fine, at least at first.
- xiphias2 6y agoRust as a language is great already as it is, it doesn’t need more features to be much better than C++ (compilation speed may be an exception...). So I guess my take is that corporate adoption is the most important thing to happen with it at this stage.
- kristoff_it 6y agoNobody expects the board of directors to influence the technical work being done. The skepticism is about decisions that have political consequences. This [1] was from the keynote of the latest RustConf. While there's surely plenty of good the Rust project will manage to do regardless of these decisions, I can't help but think there's a small disconnect between "owning" the political role of Rust, and then surrendering half the board to the usual suspects. [1] https://youtu.be/IwPRu5FhfIQ?t=1659 https://youtu.be/IwPRu5FhfIQ?t=1659