It’s not true either to say that Rust is controlled by a single organization. Certainly the Foundation is more and more driven by Amazon, but they do not control development and do not control the entire community. For example alternative implementations (GCC backend/frontend for rust, mrustc, etc) are to my knowledge not controlled by the foundation at all. The same goes with the researchers trying to formalize rust semantics: they’re completely unrelated to corporate control.
I agree with you the situation is troublesome, but despite corporate takeover Rust still looks like the most friendly, horizontal and inclusive language there is out there. Every decision is debated in the open and people have this mentality when being proven wrong is good news because it means we found a better solution that what was originally proposed (see for example the async discussions). I don’t know any other programming language community that’s like that, except maybe for some LISPs.
It’s not true either to say that Rust is controlled by a single organization. Certainly the Foundation is more and more driven by Amazon, but they do not control development and do not control the entire community. For example alternative implementations (GCC backend/frontend for rust, mrustc, etc) are to my knowledge not controlled by the foundation at all. The same goes with the researchers trying to formalize rust semantics: they’re completely unrelated to corporate control.
I agree with you the situation is troublesome, but despite corporate takeover Rust still looks like the most friendly, horizontal and inclusive language there is out there. Every decision is debated in the open and people have this mentality when being proven wrong is good news because it means we found a better solution that what was originally proposed (see for example the async discussions). I don’t know any other programming language community that’s like that, except maybe for some LISPs.