i don't think it has much to do with how the project is ran (I can think of sample pairs of projects that are ran in a similar manner where one succumbs to this problem and another doesn't). I do think it has a lot to do with culture and how accepted it is that "I have suffered through this, so […]

I don't think Rust is perfect. It and its community have significant problems. But it's the first language I've seen that's a strong counter to the use of C and C++ as extreme gatekeeping.

And no, I don't apologize for the informed and reasoned opinion that C and C++ are bad languages that are […]

i have understood for over a decade now that community led open source isn't a _development_ strategy or _maintenance_ strategy. it is a survival strategy in an adversarial environment dominated by capital. this is why, in long term, it is superior to any other type of software/hardware development