2022

It's the year 2022.

Mozilla Firefox adoption has dropped below 1% and the Mozilla Foundation announces it will be closing its doors forever due to lack of funding.

Likewise, the Rust community has shrunk, withering away over the months and years since 2017 when the last major features were added. Now it resembles nothing more than the Pascal community. Another hipster language that flourished and died.

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Take for example Graydon Hoare. Graydon was the founder of the Rust programming language at Mozilla. Here is a post on his blog where he cries that people are bending over and becoming leftists like him:

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193575.html

I'm a bog standard democratic socialist, culturally cringing straight white able-bodied rich male Canadian who likes my society multicultural, my economy redistributive, my taxation strongly progressive, my capitalism heavily regulated, my state relatively large, well funded and active in social policy, and my military nearly nonexistent outside of peacekeeping operations. I am even ok with laws regulating hate speech, obscenity, libel and such. I'm trying to paint a picture here so my sympathies are completely clear. I'm probably viewed as some kind of traitor by most extreme right wing and some left wing people, though I identify with and politically support leftist positions in almost all cases; I'm just not anti-state enough for a lot of the far (anarchist) left. I'm sorry.

Here's his other site which indexes his various interests: http://www.pobox.com/~graydon

Are you cringing yet?