I don't agree. Before Rust 1.0 the community was really, really tiny. I don't have numbers but it was really a few people discussing the design issues... it was

I don't agree. Before Rust 1.0 the community was really, really tiny. I don't have numbers but it was really a few people discussing the design issues... it was not like now where you literally have thousands of people with different incentives trying to force their views on things, which makes development go much slower than in the pre-1.0 days. I think the lesson is that, as with any software, having an open discussion between people who are on the same page about things and have similar incentives (with room for disagreements, as the initial author of Rust had plenty of) is greatly beneficial, without a doubt... but once you start getting people with polar opposite views on things, each backed by a substantial faction behind them, things start getting messy. I'm not saying this has happened in Rust, just that it's not a case the more people, the merrier.