> That de-facto standartisation
Sure, that's a fine opinion to have, but you were challenging my "people use serde" assertion. All I'm saying is that people do in fact use it.
> You conveniently ignore the other incidents.
Yeah, I submitted this post two days ago, but it hit the front page now. I was not exactly prepared to see comments here, I was on my morning walk, and typed that out on my phone. It was already getting too long.
> including the non-apology 3 months later after he was ousted by someone else
A "non-apology" because he wasn't the one at fault! And he was "ousted" because people were crying for his head, specifically, because of the Palantir thing. Not because he had any real thing to do with it. Yet people seem to want to blame him regardless of the actual facts.
But sure if you want to get into the other things, now that I'm at a computer:
> shipping binary blobs in serde to make a point and push an RFC
It is incredibly normal to ship binary blobs in other ecosystems. pjmlp will post on basically every Rust thread that Rust isn't a serious language until it can ship binary libraries. People care about compile times, and a binary serde would help with that.
With ineffectual Rust leadership, sometimes just doing the thing is the only way to actually get things done. I don't see responding to the needs of your users in spite of other people dragging their heels as "abuse of power."
> being the final descision maker of the latest core::time breakage
Do you have a citation on this one? I agree that this probably shouldn't have happened, but given that it took five minutes to recognize that it happend, type "cargo update -p time", and then move on with my life, it's not a huge deal to me. But Rust decisions aren't usually made by a single person, so that he personally somehow made the call would surprise me.
> (which to my knowledge hasn't happened).
As someone who is reasonably well known on the internet, it's still wild to me how much people expect others to put out in public about their personal lives. Asking for someone to publicly denounce an employer from years ago is just weird. People are free to keep their private life private.
Furthermore, even if he did do that, it's pretty clear that the folks who talk like this:
> Too long of a "Series of Unfortunate Events" to have this much power consolidated with a single BDFL for rusts serialization and metaprogramming story.
wouldn't even accept the apology. It's been years of casting every single thing into the worst light, in bad faith. I am glad that he is seemingly unphased by what I would describe as a borderline harassment campaign.