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JFC. When will open source projects like @rustlang learn that putting toxic people like this in positions of ANY authority is unacceptable. https://github.com/marshallpierce/rust-base64/issues/213 . He's showing you who he is, and you're not listening.

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 24 points 1 year ago

How is the Rust team responsible for some random GitHub dude having a strong opinion? Literally anyone can make a repo on GitHub and be a jerk.

[–] Anders429@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm confused. What makes you think they have been put in a position of authority? Anyone can simply create a fork, or a separate project completely, and go a different direction. You're not obligated to use any third party crate.

I do agree that they handled that interaction pretty poorly, though.

[–] TehPers 2 points 1 year ago

That particular interaction was handled poorly, but isn't this issue about adding essentially two 3 line helper functions to the library? Forking just for that seems unnecessary. You can instead make a new library that depends on this one and which defines your helper functions, or just copy the helpers into each project you use. It would be more convenient in base64, but it's not like it's the end of the world either.

[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

JFC. When will people learn that there will be toxic people in ANY community of sufficient size.

Also, as far as I know this crate isn't official in any capacity. Not to mention that base64 isn't terribly complicated if you don't like this crate (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64)

This post just sounds like trolling.

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to learn Rust so I can better enjoy the drama surrounding it.

[–] davidgs@tty0.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@canis_majoris I *wanted* to learn rust, but I'm all set for toxic communities, so ...

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe I'll just stick with charming snakes.

[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I was thinking the same thing when I was trying to use the new base64 code instead of the deprecated version: it's unnecessarily complicated. I remember thinking "why is this so hard, so convoluted?".