[azemetre]

Didn’t the CEO literally fire the entire rust team, not start the team?

I guess that’s a surplus good if you meant for all these highly skilled engineers taking their talents to other companies.

[wolverine876]

Did they? They helped Rust form it's own foundation and spun it off.

[azemetre]

Yes they did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143819

[wolverine876]

That doesn't match your prior statement.

[azemetre]

Fair enough, I think a literal decimation is close enough.