There is a reason why software foundations like the Apache Software Foundation exist and this is one of the bigger ones. Turns out, it just doesn't make sense

There is a reason why software foundations like the Apache Software Foundation exist and this is one of the bigger ones. Turns out, it just doesn't make sense to be an independent open source developer of a critical dependency anymore. You can write the software yourself, but you can't publish it yourself. All the Rust library crate developers will have to get together and start their own software foundation. I personally don't believe the standard library argument is very convincing, because even with Java the latest newly added HTTP client has some blatant problems that require you to go with a wrapper like Methanol.