This is a sad day for Rust. Situations can spiral out of control. Who started it? Who escalated it? You can't really define these because communication is sloppy and difficult, especially when there are cultural and language barriers involved. The only way to not get these situations to spiral out of control are a thick skin, forgiveness, and assuming noble intent.
There have been times on here where I see discussions around `unsafe` as if it was a curse. I think the discussions, over time, have gotten more nuanced which helps.
I also wonder if expectations were unclear. It now sounds like the focus of Actix was on performance and creativity / cleverness and not on being a mature product. I never heard that before. Maybe even the author didn't even originally articulate it so clearly but discovered it through these discussions.
Going forward, I hope someone archives their clones of actix and that people fork that and get it moving forward as a product. I hope people don't take a religious view of removing `unsafe` during the fork but instead follow best practices (benchmark to confirm the need, abstract it to test it, offer a feature flag for the paranoid to disable as much of it as possible).
There have been times on here where I see discussions around `unsafe` as if it was a curse. I think the discussions, over time, have gotten more nuanced which helps.
I also wonder if expectations were unclear. It now sounds like the focus of Actix was on performance and creativity / cleverness and not on being a mature product. I never heard that before. Maybe even the author didn't even originally articulate it so clearly but discovered it through these discussions.
Going forward, I hope someone archives their clones of actix and that people fork that and get it moving forward as a product. I hope people don't take a religious view of removing `unsafe` during the fork but instead follow best practices (benchmark to confirm the need, abstract it to test it, offer a feature flag for the paranoid to disable as much of it as possible).