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To summarize the post, people quickly latched onto the idea that David was trying to sabbotage introspection to protect his empire of Rust packages which are cr
by epage 3y ago
To summarize the post, people quickly latched onto the idea that David was trying to sabbotage introspection to protect his empire of Rust packages which are critical to the use of macros (syn, proc-macro2) and heavy users (serde).
- raverbashing 3y agoGeez Reason 214 for not having macros in your language: reduce drama
- Ygg2 3y agoTo be fair, this is one part where I don't think macros caused the drama. Not sure why, but broader Rust community really loves participating in drama, and seems incapable of applying the modicum of Hanlon's Razor.
- epage 3y ago> Not sure why, but broader Rust community really loves participating in drama, and seems incapable of applying the modicum of Hanlon's Razor. This has been my frustration with it all. I quickly saw how this whole thing could have happened in a purely innocent way, not to dismiss other explanations but to see that multiple narratives could exist beside the one the mob was currently latched on to.