A piece about real-world Rust development that struck a cord with many people. Most of the issues listed here are valid and longstanding to the point that you have to wonder if they’ll ever be fixed.

That popular open source package managers will at some point all get owned is so inevitable that it’s hardly worth mentioning.

The end of free money has had a huge negative impact on open source. I agree with the author here, it would have been better to license everything under copy-left and see what happens.