To bring it back to the article, this really seems like one of those "get it in and run away" cases. Or to be a bit more accurate, run away before getting it i

To bring it back to the article, this really seems like one of those "get it in and run away" cases. Or to be a bit more accurate, run away before getting it in... The author made a number of comments on the PR about how they expected it was almost done while there were still outstanding concerns from maintainers. The author stopped responding to comments when their employer's priorities changed. Someone else volunteered to finish the author's incomplete work, then the author closed the PR, complaining about being tired of seeing it in their PR list. The maintainers spent a fair amount of effort explaining many (basic Rust) things like the extremely unsound API design of dereferencing a user-supplied raw pointer. They were trying to help. This just doesn't seem like an individual the maintainers have any reason to trust.