> In graphs yes, but we're talking about self-referential structure here, and there you don't face this risk: the self-reference should always be a weak reference (the struct should be dropped when and only when the external references are gone, the internal ones don't count).
Graphs are a common example of a self-referential structure.
> Either you're implementing a data structure from a research paper (and you're in the 1% case and unsafe is fine) or you are actually using such a data structure and you don't have to perform this gymnastic by yourself. In C, people tend to reimplement data structures in their project because the dependency management story is quite dated, but it's not something anyone else does in other languages: most of the time you just import the standard library's data structure (or someone else's) and call it a day.
On the several occasions I've look for crates that do what I need. They either don't exist, or I read through the code and they're poorly written and make lots of gratuitous copies of data and are very inefficient. You also have people using crates.io for their blog, literally.
> If you expect larger backers than Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google combined[1], I think you'll need to hold your breath much too long for your own good…
A few people at large companies doing resume driven development isn't a real investment. It's not from the top down. At best, you could say they have some R&D investment to hedge their bets.
> You're confusing redditors (the actix stuff took place on /r/rust) and the language management…
Then why doesn't this sort of thing happen with other communities which are also highly online? It doesn't matter if you try to do gate keeping to say "oh those redditors" or "oh those guys on hackernews" aren't the REAL Rust community, the end result was a real package being really deleted from the real Rust community.
Graphs are a common example of a self-referential structure.
> Either you're implementing a data structure from a research paper (and you're in the 1% case and unsafe is fine) or you are actually using such a data structure and you don't have to perform this gymnastic by yourself. In C, people tend to reimplement data structures in their project because the dependency management story is quite dated, but it's not something anyone else does in other languages: most of the time you just import the standard library's data structure (or someone else's) and call it a day.
On the several occasions I've look for crates that do what I need. They either don't exist, or I read through the code and they're poorly written and make lots of gratuitous copies of data and are very inefficient. You also have people using crates.io for their blog, literally.
> If you expect larger backers than Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google combined[1], I think you'll need to hold your breath much too long for your own good…
A few people at large companies doing resume driven development isn't a real investment. It's not from the top down. At best, you could say they have some R&D investment to hedge their bets.
> You're confusing redditors (the actix stuff took place on /r/rust) and the language management…
Then why doesn't this sort of thing happen with other communities which are also highly online? It doesn't matter if you try to do gate keeping to say "oh those redditors" or "oh those guys on hackernews" aren't the REAL Rust community, the end result was a real package being really deleted from the real Rust community.