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I tend to compare the #nixos and #rustlang communities a lot, because that is my bubble. Rust seems so incredibly on top of things, in comparison. Just the general way they understand social dynamics, and the way they communicate.

For example, there was an incident last year where Rust leadership had to make a public apology. I went back to read that, and there's no perfect way to do it, but it seems way better than how Nix is dealing with the Anduril controversy. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/05/29/RustConf.html

@kosinus That's very interesting, I was chatting with a rustc developer today, and he told me "It's interesting, you have almost our exact same set of problems!" after getting speed up on the ongoing situation.

@raito They're general issues of scale, I guess? So it's not very surprising in that sense, but then I feel the Rust response is very different. I should probably note that my involvement in either is sporadic at best.