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This is really hard to follow. Especially because of all those "some individuals", "someone", "two people". Why won't people put names on other people? Accusati

• fmajid 3y ago
  Apparently a big part of the brouhaha is the Rust projet leaders closing ranks to not disclose the identity of the person who made the call to demote JeanHeyd's no-longer-a-keynote, widely assumed to be David Tolnay (because the comptime proposal in the keynote would be a threat to Tolnay's little software empire, most prominently the serde crate). https://dragon.style/@pyrex/111005018693053136 https://dragon.style/@pyrex/111005018693053136 I have no way to know if @pyrex' account is accurate, but Omerta and lack of transparency is not a good look in any organization. Here is the dropped keynote, which does go in depth on the impact on serde (mostly simplifications): https://soasis.org/posts/a-mirror-for-rust-a-plan-for-generic-compile-time-introspection-in-rust/ https://soasis.org/posts/a-mirror-for-rust-a-plan-for-generi...
  • ReleaseCandidat 3y ago
    > widely assumed to be David Tolnay I would say that David Tolnay himself confirmes that in the linked Gist: I expressed forceful skepticism that the compile-time introspection work, which I had been passively following with great interest, would achieve a state that would be suitable for a RustConf keynote in time for 2023 RustConf, for lack of adequate lang team iteration (neither for the Rust Foundation grant selection, nor conference presentation) to land well with the RustConf audience.