How is the Rust team responsible for some random GitHub dude having a strong opinion? Literally anyone can make a repo on GitHub and be a jerk.

I'm confused. What makes you think they have been put in a position of authority? Anyone can simply create a fork, or a separate project completely, and go a different direction. You're not obligated to use any third party crate.

I do agree that they handled that interaction pretty poorly, though.

JFC. When will people learn that there will be toxic people in ANY community of sufficient size.

Also, as far as I know this crate isn't official in any capacity. Not to mention that base64 isn't terribly complicated if you don't like this crate (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64)

This post just sounds like trolling.

... Why are you digging up random drama from nearly a year ago?

Also, this guy isn't affiliated with the Rust team AFAIK. And even if he was, this is his crate, not rustc - he can do whatever he wants with it, and you can fork it if you disagree.

Edit:

> Account created 11 months ago

> This is its only interaction

Seems legit.

I want to learn Rust so I can better enjoy the drama surrounding it.

I was thinking the same thing when I was trying to use the new base64 code instead of the deprecated version: it's unnecessarily complicated. I remember thinking "why is this so hard, so convoluted?".

Any good forks yet? Open-source is great at solving problems when you can move on from assholes...