Rust Core Team + Mozilla To Create A Rust Foundation
Rust's core team and Mozilla are announcing plans to create a Rust foundation with the hopes of establishing this legal entity by year's end. The trademarks and related assets of Rust, Cargo, and Crates.io will belong to this foundation. Work is well underway on establishing this foundation with originally coming to the idea of possibly creating an independent Rust foundation last year, now pushed along by the recent Mozilla layoffs and the global pandemic. This should allow the Rust community more safety rather than being reliant upon a sole organization (Mozilla) and help foster growth and open up new possibilities.
Lay(off)ing the foundation for Rust's future
Previously: Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team
Related: Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @01:07PM (18 children)
Because a foundation just isn't a foundation without a good Code of Conduct.
The Code will force anyone having anything to do with the foundation to be welcoming, inclusive, and supportive of multiple coding styles and languages. This way it won't end up being just a bunch of white males working on Rust.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @01:19PM
In the further interests of safety and being forced to take the CoC - mandatory gender reassignment surgery for all cis males working on Rust code.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @01:42PM (3 children)
First they need to fix the White Supremacist Rust compiler so it no longer generates racist, eurocentric code. [westernjournal.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday August 19 2020, @02:00PM (2 children)
Jeez, talk about bias:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/western-journalism/ [mediabiasfactcheck.com]
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @05:14PM (1 child)
Yeah: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cnn/ [mediabiasfactcheck.com]
Interesting site. They seem to cover foreign media outlets too. And their style seems rather neutral. I wonder who is funding them.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday August 20 2020, @05:36PM
Yeah, I refer there every time I see someone post a link from some website I have never heard of as "fact".
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @01:57PM (1 child)
b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bu muh WHITE VICTIMHOOD!!11!!11!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 20 2020, @04:08PM
b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bu muh house!!! When you're an American white male that lives in a house that's slowly sinking into a radiologically-hazardous toxic waste dump, & no government bureaucracy gives-a-shit because of reverse-racism, whaddya gonna do? And, under the layers of that toxic waste, is a hollow subterranean 'dome'. A decent explosive device planted in just the right location would most likely cause that dome to collapse & sink the entire neigborhood I reside in. Whatever it takes.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 19 2020, @02:14PM (10 children)
They already have one of those, which is why I'll use the language but refuse to contribute any of my code changes back to it or its libraries.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @03:33PM (7 children)
Oh noes whatever shall we dooooo?
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 19 2020, @03:43PM (6 children)
What's this "we" stuff? I very much doubt you've ever actually contributed code to a project, much less maintained one.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @04:02PM (5 children)
Heh, you broke SN and want to act superior? Hehe.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 19 2020, @04:43PM (4 children)
To you? Without a doubt.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2020, @05:56PM (3 children)
Fix your shit bruheimer
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 19 2020, @06:07PM
Fix what?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Informative) by barbara hudson on Wednesday August 19 2020, @09:39PM
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday August 20 2020, @10:50AM
I just chime in to say your trolling style was passe around the time modems got to 2400 baud.
Just trying to be helpful.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday August 19 2020, @06:10PM (1 child)
Rrrright. Because otherwise, without CoC, Perl if choke full of TMB's back contributions (large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday August 19 2020, @06:19PM
Some modules are, yes. I don't care to have nightmares though, so I never open the source files for Perl itself. Some Rust libraries have contributions from me as well, right up until they added a CoC.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.