Can someone explain why the development of a computer programming language needs "mod teams" and other stuff?
I don't use Rust; does Rust aspire to also be a social network or something?
It seems to me, from my outsider's perspective, that Rust has a lot of bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake. The "teams" directory [0] has two pages worth of files, which I assume are sub-team membership lists? Good grief.
> Can someone explain why the development of a computer programming language needs "mod teams" and other stuff?
>I don't use Rust; does Rust aspire to also be a social network or something?
Because this development is done by people. Those people need to communicate and coordinate in an effective way, including with people outside of the immediate development effort (i.e. not just writing code).
C++ and Fortran are in active development, but to the best of my knowledge have neither "mod teams" nor the heightened level of drama that Rust seems to attract.
> C++ and Fortran are in active development, but to the best of my knowledge have neither "mod teams" nor the heightened level of drama that Rust seems to attract.
I don't know exactly how Fortran is developed, but C++ developed at the ISO which has its own flavour of bureaucracy.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but I also don't think that C++ has its own - sanctioned - community fora like Rust does.
I don't use Rust; does Rust aspire to also be a social network or something?
It seems to me, from my outsider's perspective, that Rust has a lot of bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake. The "teams" directory [0] has two pages worth of files, which I assume are sub-team membership lists? Good grief.
[0] https://github.com/rust-lang/team/tree/master/teams