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Leaving of Mozilla and being adopted by the big players marked the end of the (successful) _technical_ experience that Rust had been up to here. But Rust has al
by speed_spread 5y ago
Leaving of Mozilla and being adopted by the big players marked the end of the (successful) _technical_ experience that Rust had been up to here. But Rust has also been a _social_ experience, with it's built-in CoC and active community management. It seems like the end of the first experience also signed the end of the second, but without the concerned participants taking notice until now.
I would declare the social experiment also a success, since it allowed the community to grow and support the technology to it's next stage of development with a surprisingly low level of drama, considering the involved egos and passion required for such an effort.
I'm not sure what should follow next. I hope the Rust foundation can spawn the next iteration of the social experiment so that all that was learned in the first phase isn't lost to the cold wind of the new corporate heir's management.