In my opinion the other dev involved stepping down was inevitable, I read their recent blog posts and it seems like more burnout and this being the final straw.

[–] nous@programming.dev 14 points 11 hours ago

Though the constant resistance from people like Hellwig were part of the reason for that burn out, though not the only reason.

[–] refalo@programming.dev -1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

to be fair, you can ask the same of many rust devs themselves

[–] jnk@masto.es 1 points 6 hours ago

@refalo oh I wasn't picking sides, I meant that for everyone involved. Less fighting and more coding; most linux users don't really care about language used as long as it works, and fast if it's possible