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A piece about real-world Rust development that struck a cord with many people. Most of the issues listed here are valid and longstanding to the point that you have to wonder if they’ll ever be fixed.

I have a similar feeling around Rust web development where for all the good building blocks it doesn’t really seem to get off the ground. At the same time Go has been going really hard for ages. Maybe spending all your time to get the types to line up doesn’t leave room for building?

https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

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That popular open source package managers will at some point all get owned is so inevitable that it’s hardly worth mentioning.

The end of free money has had a huge negative impact on open source. I agree with the author here, it would have been better to license everything under copy-left and see what happens.