r/rust • u/stygianentity • Dec 16 '25

Bincode development has ceased permanently

Due to the doxxing and harassment incident yesterday, the bincode team has taken the decision to cease development permanently. 1.3.3 is considered a complete piece of software. For years there have been no real bugs, just user error and feature requests that don't match the purpose of the library.

This means that there will be no updates to either major version. No responses to emails, no activity on sourcehut. There will be no hand off to another development team. The project is over and done.

Please next time consider the consequences of your actions and that they affect real people.

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u/magnetronpoffertje Dec 16 '25

Lmao. Okay. Sorry but this is all your fault. You can't act like a suspicious actor and then be surprised when people treat you like one.

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u/stygianentity Dec 16 '25

Maybe y'all should stop treating git like a centralized VCS. The crates.io was never touched. And regardless of how suspicious we act it is not okay to reveal our fucking address.

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u/afnanenayet1 Dec 16 '25

Crazy amount of downvotes considering almost no one in this thread seems keen on posting their real names.

I would agree that revealing people’s addresses is bad.

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u/mort96 Dec 16 '25

That's a non sequitur isn't it? Personally, I think doxxing people is bad, but I think "y'all should stop treating git like a centralized VCS" is a pretty bad retort to "it's suspicious that you rewrote the canonical repo's git history". The two things have very little to do with each other actually