Re:We are the "thin blue line" that is trying to keep the co...
by cosmic_cheese on Thursday February 13, 2025 @11:14PM
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I’m not part of the Rust community, but I imagine it’s similar to Swift’s in that most of its members have day jobs as corporate devs.
Most of them at some point have been stung by finding a library that perfectly solves their problem, only to notice that it’s licensed GPLv3 (or similar) and thus the legal dept won’t let them touch it with a ten foot pole (and/or interfacing with that dept is not worth the bother). They’d rather not put others in that predicament and want their work to be useful to as wide of a spectrum of devs as possible.
Most of them at some point have been stung by finding a library that perfectly solves their problem, only to notice that it’s licensed GPLv3 (or similar) and thus the legal dept won’t let them touch it with a ten foot pole (and/or interfacing with that dept is not worth the bother). They’d rather not put others in that predicament and want their work to be useful to as wide of a spectrum of devs as possible.