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> The ISRG's approach of working directly with maintainers to support REWRITING tools and libraries incrementally falls directly in line with our perspective he
by oscargrouch 6y ago
> The ISRG's approach of working directly with maintainers to support REWRITING tools and libraries incrementally falls directly in line with our perspective here at Google.
So, its not enough that anybody that don't want to rewrite millions of lines of code in Rust because its just pure insanity, need to be constantly harassed and forced to feel ashamed (or feel even feel guilt) because "how in the world you did not did this code in Rust"
Now there's a whole INSTITUTION to funnel the scarce resources, not by fixing the security bugs but by forcing others to Rewrite Everything In Rust® or else they will have their popular projects hijacked by highly paid engineers from companies with unlimited financial resources to rewrite the whole thing in Rust leaving the maintainers of the original project eating dust if the don't conceive?
If this is not going to support the source code maintainers to patch the bugs in whatever technology they are using, this is the Rust bullying that used to be just annoying social dynamics, being take into another level.
Daniel Stenberg and libcurl will be exemplary nailed so others feel more inclined to follow or else see their projects being taken out of their hands if they do not consent.
Imagine if you are a open source maintainer with scarce resources, being approached by an institution that promise you to give you some funds, but only if you show a plan to rewrite the whole thing in Rust?
Edit: Just follow the Stenberg tweeter if you are curious https://twitter.com/bagder https://twitter.com/bagder to see all the pressure this guy have being taken lately.