> I know people here hate design-by-committee, but historically it's led to some very cohesive languages.

C++ is not cohesive at all

Or have no more skin in the game, retirement.

Well when macOS feels heavier now than before so is that 2x really a 2x?

> often with duplicated functionality (multiple Base64, rand, sha256, etc crates)

I don’t think this is true unless they differ in major versions no? Cargo will apply semantic versioning and pick the best available given the cargo.toml version constraints.

I have a feeling they internally say "not me, I won't be replaced" and just keep moving...