So Rust is getting a corporate death hug?

At least this is the answer to the question I had "why OpenAI 'donated' all that money to rust foundation"

This sorts of formalizes something that always existed ("communicating with rust users in production", "experience reports", ...etc). And it could be argued that centralizing and publicly documenting these activities is a positive move.

But this argument runs hollow in the presence of this potential start to a bureaucratic behemoth pushing towards a committee-centric model.

Best case scenario: this is just a (side-)gig bureaucratic job for the boys, which will largely be irrelevant as far the Rust project itself goes.

Thankfully, that scenario is not implausible.

Not sure what some of these clueless comments in this thread are about. Maybe stop treating every new news item as a connected next episode in a telenovela of grand conspiracies and big betrayal.

There should be a rule against posting from random websites rehashing an original source (and not doing it well, but that's besides the point) then linking to it.

But I guess if this instance cared, it wouldn't have gave space to a reposting spammer to begin with.

So OpenAI invests a massive sum into Rust maintainers

And then Rust maintainers push out this setup?

Doesn't that just illustrate that AI has no inherent value if they have to keep paying more people to use it?