Statement from the Rust Foundation: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-04-29-membership...
It seems there are a few new silver members as well.
Can anyone speak to what power this gives them in the rust foundation, other than just good will and the dependence on funding?
I'm sad to announce that I fucking called it on the day of the Rust foundation's formation [0].
Say what you want, but the problem here is that you don't need to give board seats to those who have tons of cash, rather instead have them sponsor it, like how the R foundation has done.
Facebook essentially bought a board seat to drive and prioritise which features they want in the development of Rust.
The wolf eats the same grass as the sheep and gets praise for it.
The most important news to me, Patrick Walton is now working in Facebook?
Seems lots of people left Mozilla.
Does anyone know what the financial requirements are to be a platinum or silver level member of the Rust Foundation? I clicked around on their website but couldn't find the answer.
Days without a Rust headline on HN : 0. I almost hate Rust just because it seems like it's shoved down my throat.
Well, that makes me a tad less enthusiastic about Rust.
This is a great step for the Rust Foundation and a sign that Rust is transitioning successfully to a foundation model rather than a Mozilla-centric organization.
It looks like some people are worried about Facebook's influence on Rust, but that doesn't seem like a huge concern to me. Facebook isn't going to want to influence Rust in any particularly "Facebooky" way since it's such a deep-in-the-infrastructure component. They will just have the same concerns that many other large tech companies have, like, can you use it successfully in an environment that has a zillion engineers and a zillion other programming languages to interoperate with. It's important for Rust to be nice to use at both big and small companies so that's a good sort of voice to have in the foundation.