Python post-Guido

" It is not a community project in a sense Python is."

And how does it even matter ? The decision process is completely open and Rust is not Java even if there are corporation backed contributors. And about the "niche language" aspect, that's true that the Rust community is (at least for the moment) smaller than the Python one, but Rust is quite young too. What I tried to communicate was that it just seems to work and that from the beginning they tried to follow a scalable approach to language design.

Their is not much example of bad "dictatorized" project still around, because they tend to die or to be forked. However, I realize that perhaps I misunderstood what you were meaning with "dictatorship" : are you, by this word, speaking about arbitration authority ? Like, the Debian Technical Committee, the LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee, how the various project in Apache are managed and so on ? Having a unique Man having the role of a local god is not the most successful way of doing community but yes, there are some real high profile exceptions. And even then, in the case of Linux it's not a dictatorship anyway, it's more a "release managership" (imho)