@freakboy3742 @sgillies ha yeah it’s more like the 12th mover than the 2nd. I mean, it’s not even the first that’s been funded.
@jacob @freakboy3742 @sgillies I _want_ to be supportive of and enthusiastic about this work, I think it's great that people are getting paid properly, but it just has neon warning lights flashing "unsustainable" all over it. and the fact that it is being written *assuming* a full time maintenance team — writing Rust — leads me to an inexorable conclusion that the community will all switch to this great option, which will start bitrotting in 10 months when astral flames out
@glyph @jacob @freakboy3742 @sgillies
Those neon warning lights should have been flashing this whole time anyway, given that the foundational development workflow tools have been almost exclusively relying on people volunteering their time for the last decade or so. If anything, this has been a push toward making the space meaningfully better _now_ and if it results in a multi-stakeholder open source project at the end of this, it's a win-win overall? It's a load-bearing "if" tho.