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by strcat 2633 days ago
What about it? I made a substantial positive impact on Rust, largely because I strongly pushed my ideas and consistently and strongly argued against taking it in directions that I disagreed with. I wasn't happy with the level of control Mozilla had over the project and they weren't happy with someone always questioning their decisions and expecting them to do things fairly based on merit and fair honest discussions / debate. I ultimately ended up deciding to leave the project permanently and removed myself as a collaborator.

Someone followed that up by making a post trying to support me thinking that I had been pushed out which is not what happened. The people there were split between supporting me or supporting the Rust developers but they were all arguing about something which didn't actually happen.