> Are the rust teams sure they’re serving their user base? Or are they actually pandering to a vocal minority? > > Are they actually addressing real pain point

> Are the rust teams sure they’re serving their user base? Or are they actually pandering to a vocal minority? > > Are they actually addressing real pain points? Or just working on cool stuff? > > Have they even asked? Open source maintainers and authors owe you nothing. If you are not paying them, they owe you zero consideration in their work. The entitlement from 'users' which open source maintainers constantly face is over the top. The rust team ought to build the language they want and people can use it or not.