Having developed and launched a database (TerminusDB) built on a Rust core, this makes me slightly nervous. Feels like the evil empire will bring both great riches and great peril to the fantastic Rust community (part of the reason we picked Rust). Guaranteed sponsors for conferences, but also a certain malignant cynicism (am I being too harsh?). AWS will also aggressively compete for the best talent, which is tricky when you are small and open source.
> AWS will also aggressively compete for the best talent, which is tricky when you are small and open source.
Barring surges in demand at month-scale timelines, this isn't a zero sum game. Competition for Rust talent will result in an increase in the amount of Rust talent. Even better if you're open source; a growing population of Rust devs roaming the planet can only help you.
that is probably fair, I suppose comparing to the python world the financial folk soak up a lot of talent, but the open source ecosystem is stronger and better than ever.
Yep, Rust is especially vulnerable to featureitis because it's already a big language. The more surface area, the more breeding ground for temptations for growing the language. And in its current users a survivorship bias for new feature appetite.
