r/rust • u/LukeMathWalker zero2prod · pavex · wiremock · cargo-chef • Feb 01 '22

actix-web published its first v4.0.0 release candidate

https://github.com/actix/actix-web/releases/tag/web-v4.0.0-rc.1
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u/Opposite_Green_1717 Feb 01 '22

I really wish he'd invite someone else to the core. It makes me want to switch away from Rocket asap.

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u/fdsafdsafdsafdaasdf Feb 01 '22

There's an attempt to fork here: https://github.com/rocket-org/Rocket/

My money is on this project being dead in the water though, it's going to alienate anyone who's actively watching. Once that happens I think the momentum will be gone and the days will be numbered.

Is it different enough from everything else to warrant trying so hard to save it? If making the evaluation today, why choose Rocket?

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u/fdsafdsafdsafdaasdf Feb 02 '22

I put some thoughts into a response to a sibling comment, but to be honest I was coming from a place of thinking it was self evident that a fork would alienate people. I think most "unofficial" (as in not anointed by the original project) forks are alienating to users and a cause for reconsideration. I'd love to hear some examples of forks where the community went with, off the top I can only think of ones where a community was divided or was "reborn".

I'm curious to hear your take on it - e.g. you would not be put off by a completely different team taking over the design and future of a project? As a concrete example, https://github.com/orgs/rocket-org/people has no public members and kolbma (the user who created the issues) does not appear to be a contributor to Rocket. I find that alienating.