I've done a bit of work with Rust, and while I did find some of the complexity frustrating, it wasn't _that_ bad.
While I could sort of see some situation like you describe with a secret agenda from big tech, I think that probably requires significantly more cunning & organisation than they actually have around this stuff. It's not like Microsoft invented Rust - in fact it came from a relatively small corp in the first place.
It is irrelevant who invented Rust. The relevant fact is that it can be used as a tool to divide the community because of its very opinionated design. Systemd was equally opinionated and also caused huge division. Who is paying the bills of Poettering these days: Microsoft.
The Halloween documents show that Microsoft is playing these games for a long time now. Who knows in which way they have advanced their psyops. Just because we can't read their E-mails anymore doesn't mean they stopped doing it.
>It is irrelevant who invented Rust. The relevant fact is that it can be used as a tool to divide the community because of its very opinionated design.
Compared to C where it has the opinion of no fixed data types making you deal with it.
>Systemd was equally opinionated and also caused huge division. Who is paying the bills of Poettering these days: Microsoft.
Systemd was only opinionated in how it should break posix, because it's meant to be Linux only.
And you're then saying that there is credible evidence that Poettering was a Microsoft mole almost 15 years ago with instructions to create systemd to "disrupt" the Linux ecosystem?
Boy did Microsoft fail there, more distros than ever adopted it and it's these days almost entirely pain free.
>The Halloween documents show that Microsoft is playing these games for a long time now. Who knows in which way they have advanced their psyops. Just because we can't read their E-mails anymore doesn't mean they stopped doing it.
If you have actually read the docs you would know that their strategy is not to divide and conquer as they say FUD does not work, but to instead compete with OSS.
While I could sort of see some situation like you describe with a secret agenda from big tech, I think that probably requires significantly more cunning & organisation than they actually have around this stuff. It's not like Microsoft invented Rust - in fact it came from a relatively small corp in the first place.