[mooman219]

The namespace issue was frequently brought up with the crates.io team on Discord, Github, and focus groups at various points over the life of the service. The takeaway is that the lack of namespaces isn't a funding issue, they did not, and still do not believe it is the right design. I personally don't think this is correct, and squatting is very prevalent right now. It's been a bit of a broken record at this point, but at the end of the day it's a volunteer run project and the volunteers that are willing to spend the time to maintain it don't want the feature. I think overall this is a pain point, but by no means a deal breaker.

[metajack]

I can confirm that I personally advocated for namespaces before Cargo existed. I failed to convince the decision makers.

Meanwhile, just a few days ago some of my project's crates were freshly squatted. Sigh.

Maybe someday they'll come around.