> It's literally a test of how people will react

What's there to test? It was obvious that the reaction would be overwhelmingly negative, so that's definitely not something they would care about. What else?

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steveklabnik 2 days ago | parent [-]

Is the reaction overwhelmingly negative? I haven’t read all of the emails but they seemed basically neutral or positive to me. Could you link me to some extremely negative ones, I’m curious.

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egorfine 2 days ago | parent [-]

The only reactions I was seeing were overwhelmingly negative. Just random people on Twitter.

While I love rust, I can't imaging being both sane and positive about that change.

	▲	steveklabnik 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, so the people whose opinions they care about is going to be git contributors, not random Twitter users (some of whom can literally make money from outrage farming). The folks who actually do the work.