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> What's actually happening is that some major projects are evaluating - slowly - whether Rust could be integrated in some areas. Related to your comment: the

> What's actually happening is that some major projects are evaluating - slowly - whether Rust could be integrated in some areas. Related to your comment: the writer of curl was investigating Rust. [https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/10/09/rust-in-curl-with-hyper/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/10/09/rust-in-curl-with-hyp...] The first comment on that article complains that Daniel is being pressured by the Rust community, and he responds: > “They” don’t change anything here – I do. This is a project in which I’m working on a change as described in this post. It’s not a conspiracy.

pizza234 5y ago
> The first comment on that article complains that Daniel is being pressured by the Rust community, and he responds: The first comment actually proves, in a typical way, the point of the RIIR misinformation. Here it is, in full: > This sounds like the usual EEE playbook. Some powerful party wants to take away your project. The new slightly incompatible curl will then be the new “curl”, and the current curl will be dead. We have seen it so many times. > Please Daniel stick to C-based curl, and don’t align with such parties. They should rename their work, and we will see if their rusted thingy gets any traction without using the well known and trusted “curl” brand. The author is not a Rust programmer, and they're thinking on behalf of Curl's author, pushing a pseudo-conspiracy theory narrative ("some powerful party wants to take away your project"). Who's this powerful "party"? The Rust Illuminati? /s Depending on the interpretation, the Curl author's answer could be actually a confirmation of the nonsense of the comment ("It’s not a conspiracy"). The author has actually been outspoken on the nutty people putting pressure in a way or another. Here's a fun post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl There's no trace of Rust programmers, and even if they were, they'd be simply nuts as all the people mentioned in the post.

pizza234 5y ago

> The first comment on that article complains that Daniel is being pressured by the Rust community, and he responds: The first comment actually proves, in a typical way, the point of the RIIR misinformation. Here it is, in full: > This sounds like the usual EEE playbook. Some powerful party wants to take away your project. The new slightly incompatible curl will then be the new “curl”, and the current curl will be dead. We have seen it so many times. > Please Daniel stick to C-based curl, and don’t align with such parties. They should rename their work, and we will see if their rusted thingy gets any traction without using the well known and trusted “curl” brand. The author is not a Rust programmer, and they're thinking on behalf of Curl's author, pushing a pseudo-conspiracy theory narrative ("some powerful party wants to take away your project"). Who's this powerful "party"? The Rust Illuminati? /s Depending on the interpretation, the Curl author's answer could be actually a confirmation of the nonsense of the comment ("It’s not a conspiracy"). The author has actually been outspoken on the nutty people putting pressure in a way or another. Here's a fun post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/20/i-could-rewrite-curl There's no trace of Rust programmers, and even if they were, they'd be simply nuts as all the people mentioned in the post.