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2023-08-21 11:57:53

Southern Wolf on Nostr: Pass on the word npub129gva…e4kwg, npub1z593n…xnpt7, and others, Serde-Derive has ...

Pass on the word npub129gvast08lj986yftn7q5qlnj8yfqufxx0m33s9u5xssjm8c64rsve4kwg (npub129g…4kwg), npub1z593nnjdmh5yam2f07g2ck7g4zmgf5nk3kh9kc3y9jy9z05z5l8q3xnpt7 (npub1z59…npt7), and others, Serde-Derive has dropped the pro-compiled binaries!

The commit says he still wants to do it at some point, and apparently he's using this as a way to push harder for crates.io to support binaries (you can read about this in the comments on this Reddit post), but for now #Rust nature is healing...

However, he didn't offer an apology at all, & so far those blocked/banned from the serde GitHub haven't been let back on either. This current issue may be over for now, but it doesn't seem like it's settled.

I think a good lesson learned from all of this is that cult of personalities around such individuals are unwarranted, at best. Further still, this should be taken a sign that such important resources to the #RustLang ecosystem likely need to be interwoven into the language system directly, rather than be under the control of one person outside of it.

Indeed, there are lessons to be learned from this...
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