> What on earth is going on here?
With the nearly complete PR with the port to rust, a number of people predicted that it was going to happen. They were assured it's unlikely to happen and then they were accused of overreacting over effectively nothing. When those same people who were already upset about the rewrite, learned that their predictions the same ones that were rudely dismissed, were in fact, correct, they became upset again; this time about being lied to.
Correct or not, it's reasonable to conclude they were lied to. Especially given they correctly predicted the future.
>Correct or not, it's reasonable to conclude they were lied to.
No it's not. If we were 9 days away from a human written version of this experiment then yeah it would be reasonable to conclude they were lied to, because a human written version would progress so much slower and steadier that it's very unlikely you hadn't made up most of your mind a week before merge time.
But it's not human written. It's months, perhaps years of work compressed into a week, where the machine can go from 'nothing is working' to 'everything is working' in a few days. There is nothing reasonable about concluding you must have been lied to when such a delta in such a short time is possible. And if people fail to see that, then perhaps the initial assertions about an emotional meltdown were not so far off after all.
I might surprise you, but tech projects have social part of it. Decisions like that are discussed with community. It is completely fine to not give a single shit about community, but then don't act surprised when community doesn't give a shit about you.
Decisions like this are discussed however the maintainers of the project wish to discuss them. And a majority of the time, these decisions are made and discussed solely by the maintainers, so I really have no idea what you're talking about.