> The issue for me here is - what if hypothetically the political viewpoint is misguided?
Then you stay away from engaging with the underlying community that issues such statements (which might just be a smaller sub-community of the project's wider community).
> All I care about is the new and improved logic flow syntax of Rust.
And you are free to care only about that, use it as a purely technical product and just ignore any political statements (which shouldn't be too hard).
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While I don't think every organization intends to have some kind of alignment, they ultimately will all have one, since people do, and organizations are made up of people.
Sometime in the last week, there was an open source federated social network project posted on HN. They have a very political stance when it comes to their developer community, which causes many people to stay away from contributing to the project, to a level where I think it might be the project's long-term demise. While it's never a nice sight to see "wasted effort" like that, given the high level of transparency and contributors willingly joining and staying in the community, that seems like a decent mode of operating.
Then you stay away from engaging with the underlying community that issues such statements (which might just be a smaller sub-community of the project's wider community).
> All I care about is the new and improved logic flow syntax of Rust.
And you are free to care only about that, use it as a purely technical product and just ignore any political statements (which shouldn't be too hard).
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While I don't think every organization intends to have some kind of alignment, they ultimately will all have one, since people do, and organizations are made up of people.
Sometime in the last week, there was an open source federated social network project posted on HN. They have a very political stance when it comes to their developer community, which causes many people to stay away from contributing to the project, to a level where I think it might be the project's long-term demise. While it's never a nice sight to see "wasted effort" like that, given the high level of transparency and contributors willingly joining and staying in the community, that seems like a decent mode of operating.