[ARussell]

No, you're not. But I'd not say something beforehand, because there's nothing wrong with such a project succeeding if that's what ended up happening. Being able to say "I told you so" isn't worth it.

Although I personally think Rust is fine. It's just that I thought the frontend and backend split is too complex. I am looking for something simpler than neovim, personally, and xi didn't tick that box for me.

[blub]

Right, I didn't want to be a killjoy other, but the goal of postmortems is honestly appraising what happened.

Not mentioning Rust as a cause for failure at all is mildly disappointing but at the same time mostly expected given the lack of self-reflection in the community. I would have also liked to see some thoughts on how this debacle could have been avoided. What were the mental processes that made the author(s) ignore some pretty serious alarm signs about the design? How can these be better controlled?