Rust Trademark Shenanigans

[SiliconWizard]

https://devclass.com/2023/04/11/dont-call-it-rust-community-complains-about-draft-trademark-policy-restricting-use-of-word-marks/

[DiTBho]

I still have to understand if I want to invest time with *that* language, regardless of what they want to call it 
(and I still can't use it on MIPS and HPPA because I can't get clang/llvm to work there)

[SiliconWizard]

Depends on what your goal is and what you mean by "invest time".

I have taken a good look at it, if just to try and be objective about it and see what it could objectively bring to my table. So in that regard I did invest some time. But have I decided to do anything major with it? Nope. So, limited investment.

There's a number of reasons why I don't "buy" it, some of which I have already talked about - and this is not exactly the point of this thread anyway.

But the Rust Foundation itself, its behavior and its main members - that's something that definitely doesn't look good to me.

[DiTBho]

But the Rust Foundation itself, its behavior and its main members - that's something that definitely doesn't look good to me.

yup, precisely, that's *the* point: it doesn't smell good to me either.
And we can have a taste of it from the new issue with the Rust Trademark shenanigans.

[AndyBeez]

Remember how crazy things went at Twitter when Sith Lord Musk took over? It seems the same kind of crazy is consuming the beanbags at rustacean central. So as I understand their proposal reads, you can write code in open source Rust, but, you are prohibited to say it's written in ®UST, or even packaged with ©ARGO?  Git on this >

I still have to understand if I want to invest time with *that* language, regardless of what they want to call it 
(and I still can't use it on MIPS and HPPA because I can't get clang/llvm to work there)

Same. Rust dominates in the Smart Contract and Crypto Trading space. Maybe it's the lightweight runtime that keeps developers infatuated, but is anyone really making a long term career from this alt-dot-language?. I certainly gave it a good looking at in the pandemic, but realised it's just another Node, Lua, Python... Okay there are a few $500K golden-gate/golden-ticket positions for 'rust engineers'  [not corrosion metrologists?], but soon those lucky dudes could be paying back their wages in royalties (?)