People adopted systemd because it solved their problems.
People adopted Rust because it solved their problems.
Open-source has always been essentially a do-ocracy. Lots of work happens primarily because the people actually doing the work want it to happen, and they decide how to get it done, too. Systemd made maintaining a distribution vastly easier and solved problems that the alternatives weren't addressing, and the maintainers are doing the work, so they made the decision. This is no different.
It's also pretty ironic to call the Rust community culty - in comparison to GNU!
Don't like it, don't use it - same with systemd. I'm not sure what the complaint is. When Go is used to rewrite something, nobody complains. Also, you should find out what a cult is and do some research on past cults before you start accusing a project of being a cult.
We're commenting on an Ubuntu discussion where an Ubuntu developer is proposing to make this mandatory for Ubuntu. Even when the alternatives system is suggested, that's quickly dismissed, because the real aim is to boot out coreutils permanently and make written-in-Rust the default.
I don't mind people writing things in their favourite languages; I do mind them trying to compel me to adopt them through distro shenanigans. Even though Debian adopted systemd, it didn't do it without a _lot_ of discussion and voting.
dralley|11 months ago
People adopted Rust because it solved their problems.
Open-source has always been essentially a do-ocracy. Lots of work happens primarily because the people actually doing the work want it to happen, and they decide how to get it done, too. Systemd made maintaining a distribution vastly easier and solved problems that the alternatives weren't addressing, and the maintainers are doing the work, so they made the decision. This is no different.
It's also pretty ironic to call the Rust community culty - in comparison to GNU!
ape4|11 months ago
knowitnone|11 months ago
amiga386|11 months ago
I don't mind people writing things in their favourite languages; I do mind them trying to compel me to adopt them through distro shenanigans. Even though Debian adopted systemd, it didn't do it without a _lot_ of discussion and voting.
steveklabnik|11 months ago
You know, before this week, I would have said that, but given the shitstorm over the TypeScript compiler in the past few days...