@Athena i too am appalled by this quote and the attitude i've seen among several people in rust leadership. so what should we do about it? genuinely asking. i can think of a few options:

1. decide that the whole rust project and its leadership is unsalvageable
=> there aren't many other programming languages where the situation is better, and _especially_ none that are memory safe in the same ways. should we start a new one from scratch? should we fork rust? who will help us do this?

2. attempt to influence internal project decisions in our favor
=> clarfonthey is the author of the _only_ RFC that actually tries to prohibit nontrivial LLM usage. if we go this route, i don't think antagonizing our only ally actually doing work on this from the inside is a good idea.

which of the above options do you think we should take? or possibly a third?

none of those questions are rhetorical.