[reaperman]

If the majority of Amos (fasterthanlime), Raph Levien, Ashley Williams, Carol Nichols and Steve Klabnik throw their weight behind any fork of Rust, then that’s where I’m putting my energy too.

I believe they’re hugely responsible for most of the adoption of Rust and have no doubt they’d see continued success anywhere they choose.

[kaba0]

> If the majority of Amos (fasterthanlime), Raph Levien, Ashley Williams, Carol Nichols and Steve Klabnik throw their weight behind any fork of Rust

But they quite dislike this fork, don’t they?

[reaperman]

Ashley Williams comments were sympathetic but unsupportive. I haven’t heard anything from the others.

Based on Ashley’s comments, I think the HN community has really overreacted to this story and treated it as something much bigger than it is. Im not sure there’s anyone at all notable involved with the “crab” fork.

I haven’t looked into it much though, someone may correct me. Overall though, I’m not sure this is worthy of our attention.

[EyeSayUntoThee]

That's a very short-sighted way to read the room. Doubt has been sown at a critical Rust adoption juncture, and major damage has occurred, and the stench will not simply blow away or only stick with the forkers, it's damaged RUST and The Official Rust People need to wake up and smell some burning coffee, or the dreams of this unique lego just evaporating while you claim it's all a tempest in a teapot. Note: I have no horse in this race other than using Rust and wanting to have a stable unique lego for all things from baremetal to high level, which is here and being threatened by all this nonsense.

HN teapot tempest = something Official Folks better heed, or pay the price for... problem is, this strike is damaging the company, and management thinks it's no big deal...

[cookieperson]

Maybe for now. But if it turns into the right thing their opinion will change.