[pdimitar]

You do have a point but in case you are saddened by this phenomena, let me just point out that we live in a VERY different age compared to when GNU coreutils were born. Nowadays you only get a few minutes -- or hours if you are lucky -- to answer a ton of fundamental questions like "where do we host code?" and "how do we communicate on this project?" or "how do we do CI/CD?" etc.

The people in the past had all the time in the world to tinker and invent. Maybe I am mistaken though, past is usually looked through rose-tinted glasses right?

But the fact remains: nowadays answering the above questions is beyond my pay grade: in fact it's beyond anyone's pay grade. Services like GitHub are deemed a commodity and questioning that status quo is a career danger.

I really do wish we start over on most of the items you enumerated. But I am not paid to do it. In fact I am paid to quickly select tools and never invent any -- except when they solve a pressing business need and are specific enough for the organization; in that case it's not only okay but a requirement.

Beyond anything else however, we practically have no choice. If I don't host a new company project on GitHub I'll eventually be fired and replaced with somebody who will.

[HDMI_Cable]

I would also onto your point and say that one reason why Rust is easy to get into is because of the convenience that these semi-proprietary platforms provide.

We here on HN have both the time and ability to set up things like CLI Git, and Matrix. But for a new language, forcing people onto esoteric (& superior) platforms makes them less likely to use them.

It would be nice if Matrix and self-hosted Git were the default, but when acquiring users/programmers is your goal, Rust doesn't have that luxury.

[pdimitar]

Agreed. Maybe they will tighten things up in the future but when you are after adoption and getting as much help as you can, it's indeed a luxury to be morally idealistic.