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Comment Rust organization (Score 2) 6

It's the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, "an initiative we'll shape in close collaboration with the Rust Project Leadership Council and Project Directors

It is surely meaningful that a leadership council and directors got funding before the people who were actually doing the work maintaining the code.

Comment Engineers (Score 1) 13

a genuine acceleration of discovery. It's the quiet kind of progress engineers love — invisible, but indispensable...

Who said that engineers love indispensable things?

My observation is that engineers like well-engineered things. I've never heard any engineer anywhere say they like indispensable things. What was the source of information, Gemini?

Comment Re:Rustification (Score 1) 63

Breaking architecture to improve parsing security on files that are almost always received from a trusted source is really a horrible choice. It's saying, "Fuck you" to those users.

The engineering decision is made worse by the fact that making a fallback to support those platforms would be simple, and is already mostly implemented. It's a bad enough decision that I'd have to say the person who made it is not an engineer, he's just an asshole.

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