JFC. When will open source projects like @rustlang learn that putting toxic people like this in positions of ANY authority is unacceptable. https://github.com/marshallpierce/rust-base64/issues/213 . He’s showing you who he is, and you’re not listening.
Max-P ( @Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ) English24•9 months agoHow is the Rust team responsible for some random GitHub dude having a strong opinion? Literally anyone can make a repo on GitHub and be a jerk.
Anders429 ( @Anders429@programming.dev ) English16•9 months agoI’m confused. What makes you think they have been put in a position of authority? Anyone can simply create a fork, or a separate project completely, and go a different direction. You’re not obligated to use any third party crate.
I do agree that they handled that interaction pretty poorly, though.
TehPers ( @TehPers@beehaw.org ) English2•9 months agoThat particular interaction was handled poorly, but isn’t this issue about adding essentially two 3 line helper functions to the library? Forking just for that seems unnecessary. You can instead make a new library that depends on this one and which defines your helper functions, or just copy the helpers into each project you use. It would be more convenient in
base64
, but it’s not like it’s the end of the world either.
TheAgeOfSuperboredom ( @TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca ) English7•9 months agoJFC. When will people learn that there will be toxic people in ANY community of sufficient size.
Also, as far as I know this crate isn’t official in any capacity. Not to mention that base64 isn’t terribly complicated if you don’t like this crate (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64)
This post just sounds like trolling.
smoothbrain coldtakes ( @canis_majoris@lemmy.ca ) English4•9 months agoI want to learn Rust so I can better enjoy the drama surrounding it.
@canis_majoris I *wanted* to learn rust, but I’m all set for toxic communities, so …
smoothbrain coldtakes ( @canis_majoris@lemmy.ca ) English2•9 months agoMaybe I’ll just stick with charming snakes.
livingcoder ( @livingcoder@programming.dev ) English3•9 months agoI was thinking the same thing when I was trying to use the new base64 code instead of the deprecated version: it’s unnecessarily complicated. I remember thinking “why is this so hard, so convoluted?”.