You can download the code directly from crates.io still.
Yeah, I’ve noticed this happening elsewhere on Lemmy instances, too.
You’re right, I missed that. That’s unfortunate.
Well said. I imagine that maintaining a project as ubiquitous as serde
is not an easy job, and I’m sure dtolnay is no stranger to holding his ground when people disagree with him. I’m therefore not that surprised to see him holding his ground on this issue, and I think people should still continue the discussion with him instead of immediately forking.
I personally think that proposing a PR to allow opting out of this (as is being hashed out here: https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/pull/2580) is a much better solution than forking. In my experience in open source dev, writing a PR often produces much better results than just complaining in an issue.
dtolnay isn’t the only maintainer though. oli-obk is also a maintainer and is participating in the discussions on the PR.
Fun fact: the guy who wrote watt
is the same guy who wrote serde
.
I’m so glad they remind me so I don’t forget and accidentally buy them again!