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Re:A Sad Day for Rust by Ygg2 on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:51AM (#22076359)
> They were hateful and virtrolous

Who's they? Most of PR commenters were courteous. The last few were rude, but so was the fafhrd91. https://gist.github.com/mafrasi2/debed733781db4aba2a52620b67...

Re:A Sad Day for Rust by hjek on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:13PM (#22076643)
> Please just stop writing Rust. You do not respect semver, you do not respect soundness, so why are you using a language predominantly based around doing these things right?
Re:A Sad Day for Rust by dependenttypes on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:56PM (#22077215)
This was posted after fafhrd91 was rude. Also...

> The last few were rude, but so was the fafhrd91

Re:A Sad Day for Rust by ivanbakel on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:29PM (#22076876)
Cherry-picking a comment doesn't give a good representation of the community. The GP is right - most comments were courteous. The point is that saying "the community" was hateful and vitriolic needs more evidence than a couple of bad eggs, because those exist everywhere.
Re:A Sad Day for Rust by enumjorge on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:51PM (#22077154)
The parent comment still stands. Whether the maintainer was in the right or in the wrong, whether they were being a jerk or not, if he wasn’t listening to the community why not just fork the code? GitHub’s UI makes that super easy.
Re:A Sad Day for Rust by jhall1468 on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:26PM (#22077538)
Just because it's easy to fork in the UI, doesn't mean it's easy to get people to switch. Some people are actually concerned about the community as a whole, rather than their own projects.
Re:A Sad Day for Rust by Ygg2 on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:50PM (#22082361)
He explicitly made the repo private over handing it to someone else.

https://gist.github.com/pcr910303/d7722a26499d0e9d2f9034a06f...