Herb Sutter on increasing safety in C++

How do you know there's a disconnect? I'm pretty sure that Steve is genuine in his grief. He is just not the person who would do things like that. I don't think he ever objected to what Kim is doing, publicly or privately.

But how do you know what others are thinking? I know for the fact that many of them would be fired if they would say what Redditers easily say… and you want to say that people placed in this position are the ones words of whom we should trust?

I consider Reddit posts closer to what people actually think: on Reddit people may say things without fear of retaliation because Reddit doesn't give others an easy way to use DIE department of speaker's company to silence said speaker.

Yet Reddit does give an option to silence people who stray out of the line. And if you go against the majority you would be silenced. But that wouldn't be because one person who hates your guts used the evidence that your are not “tolerant enough” against you.

Thus that easy threat: be nice even to the guys who may destroy your community or else you would be fired? That's not possible on Reddit. Or LWN for that matter.

But that's only not possible for people who keep their real identity separated from your Reddit (or LWN) identity. Once someone knows who you are… DIE departments are always watching. These are the real uncontrollable Inquisition that accelerate the downfall of the modern society that they supposedly serve.

You couldn't trust a word of anyone who is under threat to DIE from his words.

P.S. That's why I celebrate what Rust achieved there. 20 or maybe even 10 years ago it wouldn't have been an achievement. But today, when voices of everyone who may act as authority and stop language abuse easily are forcibly silenced… to do what Rust community managed to achieve is not easy.

I think the user might be right.

If the user thinks they're “right” but the maintainer of the code disagrees, it is the user's privilege to fork the code. The user is not entitled to have the maintainer change the code, at no charge, to conform to the user's wishes, and the user most certainly does not get to hijack the original project by driving away the original maintainer.

The principle of free software is, you scratch your own itches. Scratching other people's itches, particularly for free, is entirely optional (even though some free-software maintainers take satisfaction from that, and if that happens, good for those other people). In fact, the whole idea behind free software in the first place is putting other people in a position where they can scratch their own itches and don't need to rely on anyone else to scratch those itches for them.

Yes. It's about 30% slower on benchmarks.

How much of it is real and how much is Dieselgate-style improvements is hard to say, but the majority of the Rust community vote went to safety and not to 30% speed increase.

Simply because most of the time it's better to spend 30% more on hardware then lose millions from outages.

Yup. That's precisely what happened here: Kim got his ntex to play benchmark games, community got something they may trust.

One may argue that “it's not fair” that community got the name, too, but we know from the history that it wouldn't have mattered in the long run anyway. Think gcc/egcs split, think LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice, etc. The only thing that stubbornness of the developer brings in cases like that is damage for the innocent bystanders.

The fact that Kim got enough dignity to accept that is a big plus for his human character IMNSHO, but that still doesn't mean I would like to use ntex instead of actix-web, sorry.