Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

aniou 12/26/2025|

As side note. Maybe someone knows, why rust devs chose an already used name for language changes proposal? "RFC" was already taken and well-established and I simply refuse to accept that someone wasn't aware about Request For Comments - and if it was true and clash was created deliberately, then it was rude and arrogant.

Every, ...king time, when I read something like "RFC 2789 introduced a sparse HTTP protocol." my brain suffers from a short-circuit. BTW: RFC 2789 is a "Mail Monitoring MIB".

adastra22 12/26/2025||

There are many, many RFC collections. Including many that predate the IETF. Some even predate computers.

aniou 12/26/2025||

But they were in different domains. Here, we have a strong clash because Rust is positioning itself as secure system and internet language and computer and internet standard are already defined by RFC-s. So, it may be not uncommon, when someone would tell about Rust mechanisms, defined by particular RFC in context of handling particular protocol, defined by... well... RFC too. But not by rust-one.

Not so smart, when we realize, that one of aspects of secure and reliable system is elimination of ambiguities.

Conan_Kudo 12/27/2025||

Ask them, don't ask us. They have a public interface, you can ask them to change the name to something unique.

eviks 12/26/2025||

Indeed, the seductive nature of bad tools lying close to your hand - no need to lift your butt to get them!

unit149 12/27/2025|

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