@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run
2025-12-16 00:20 UTC
@epage@hachyderm.io @vavakado@mas.to @KFears@mstdn.games perhaps steve klabnik would prefer to go on the oxide podcast again to describe tolnay's most objectionable episode as the time he worked around cargo's lack of a precompiled binary distribution mechanism, caching system straight from the 1900s, and complete failure to represent generalized build products generated by scripts in an auditable and overridable way by precompiling a macro in serde on x86. i believe the term "untrustworthy" was used to describe tolnay—not for fucking up rust's image indefinitely in a very public way, but for veering even slightly outside the chain of command.
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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 2025-12-16 00:20
@epage@hachyderm.io @vavakado@mas.to @KFears@mstdn.games one additional benefit of the rustc build system i'm working to prototype right now which replaces cargo and bootstrap entirely is that it also loses the 9000 transitive deps on the david tolnay cinematic universe. this would avoid blocking on the long tail of gccrs compat while overcoming the two main reasons potential new rust users outside the weapons and surveillance industry (radical queers much like the ones who built rust into what it is now) can't allow themselves to invest long-term into rust as a platform for new heights of safety and empathy.