JFC. When will open source projects like @rustlang learn that putting toxic people like this in positions of ANY authority is unacceptable. https://github.com/marshallpierce/rust-base64/issues/213 . He’s showing you who he is, and you’re not listening.
I was thinking the same thing when I was trying to use the new base64 code instead of the deprecated version: it’s unnecessarily complicated. I remember thinking “why is this so hard, so convoluted?”.![](https://lemmy.kya.moe/imgproxy?src=programming.dev%2fpictrs/image/083bd1b5-467d-485d-a017-ea97cbbe6cc0.jpeg)