On: Microsoft is creating a new Rust-based programming...

[steveklabnik]

Microsoft already contributes to the Rust project; for example, Azure sponsors our CI.

[techntoke → steveklabnik]

Lol, they host our data so therefore they contribute. That is some next level Stockholm Syndrome.

[steveklabnik → techntoke]

We use a lot of CI; those resources are not cheap. And it is central to the way we develop the language, so it really really matters.

(And this is just the most obvious and clear way that they support Rust, it’s not limited to that.)

[dralley → techntoke]

They're not "hosting the data" they're donating hundreds of CPU cores and infrastructure.

[techntoke → dralley]

So does GitLab and it actually has an open source version.