AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock

Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by untog on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:44AM (#25237811)

> Better AWS pays for Rust development than if noone would.

That feels like a false choice, though. Rust is popular enough that surely another company (Fastly, for example?) would have good use for such a talent. But I doubt they can rival Amazon in pay. Such is the world.

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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by nicoburns on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:57AM (#25237883)

If someone is working on a social good (the Rust compiler), is it not better that they are taking money from a large corporation rather than a smaller one that might put that money to better use?

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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by untog on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:58AM (#25237890)

Depends if that large corporation decides the direction of their work. Social good isn’t guaranteed in perpetuity.

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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by nicoburns on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:08AM (#25237954)

> Social good isn’t guaranteed in perpetuity.

True, but employment isn't perpetual either. If they later decided that their work wasn't what they wanted to be working on then they would be free to leave at that point.

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Re:AWS hires Rust compiler team co-lead Felix Klock by antihero on Saturday November 28, 2020 @02:25PM (#25239792)

Well the problem comes when said corporation co-ops said good thing for their own gain, to the deficiet of the wider community.

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