This is the sheep dev. They're in WG14. Show some respect.

What is sheep dev and WG14? Genuinly curious.

Sheep is the fursona they use, WG14 is the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 C standards committee.

ThePhD is project editor for WG14, the C language standards committee. The other poster is probably referring to them as "the sheep dev" because ThePhD is prolific on GitHub and have an anthropomorphic sheep as their profile image.

Strong “jilted lover” vibes

What makes you think that?

ThePhD was asked to host a talk, wanted to refuse but got encouraged to proceed, then was told to downgrade talk.

That move ruins trust. Say Rust project was funding the trip? Would you agree after getting jerked around before?

I think the big problem is Rust project is operating in a WTF mode.

Everyone involved is a person, and we are all subject to making mistakes. The organizers probably should not have pushed this as a keynote presentation, and they eventually realized their mistake. JeanHeyd Meneide saw this as a slight, but it was clearly not intended as such.

It's probably a good thing that this post was flagged.

The different category of the talk literally changed nothing about his talk... except maybe the duration and time schedule. It's not like they called it off last second after he had already prepared everything.