The author is trying to make "stdx" a thing, and content like this (I'm not dunking on it) is what you write when you're trying to reinforce the idea that it's

The author is trying to make "stdx" a thing, and content like this (I'm not dunking on it) is what you write when you're trying to reinforce the idea that it's a thing. The big question about this project isn't its distribution, it's the core question it posed when it was first announced: are Rust developers going to seriously entertain an alternative "standard library" curated by one developer.