[aigoochamna]

I can try to summarize my understanding of events.

  1. Dude gets invited to do a keynote. 
  2. Dude gets his keynote invite withdrawn because some members of the rust team were "uncomfortable" with the content of dude's blog. The content which was technical and not of the standard Twitter/cancellation variety. 
  3. Second Dude leaves rust leadership because he seen how the rust community treated first dude.

Totally understandable. Why waste more time with a community that can't discuss things critically even if they go against many ideas of the tech in question? Maybe a bit of an over reaction, but it's likely he knew a lot more of the community and what it's really like. This was likely the last straw.

Alternatively, look at the Go community and leadership. The Go team discussed generics and eventually implemented them although leadership and the community was often against it. They certainly didn't cancel keynotes or speakers that were pro-generics.