[dagmx]

I think it’s because the project has pitched itself as one that appeals to strong ideals. Technical ideals like safety and cultural ideals like inclusion and community driven.

Because it strives to those ideals, many of the people who flock to it hold them dearly as well. So when those tenets are broken, no matter how small or big, it sows distrust.

Other languages don’t wear those ideals on their sleeves. The closest ones are zig (which categorically says that some technical aspects are non-goals) or Swift (which has the same ideals but is more restricted in scope and appears corporate led).

The problem with community led is that you have your community issues aired in public.

I’d therefore argue rust isn’t any more or less dramatic than other language projects. It’s just more public and vocal when those happen, and when it happens it goes against ideals it states which makes it worse