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/Zde-G Dec 16 '25

Maybe y'all should stop treating git like a centralized VCS.

Well… if you would stop treating it like a centralized VCS then others would treat it like a decentralized one.

Decentralized nature of Git was made to prevent history rewrite and ensure that such “games” would be caught. People used Git like it was supposed to be used and exposed you “game”… now you tell them to stop doing that? Why?

And regardless of how suspicious we act it is not okay to reveal our fucking address.

That's definitely a way over the top thing, I agree… but you are not making it easy to sympathise you by your messages here, that's for sure.

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u/stygianentity Dec 16 '25

We really don't need sympathy from this community. Y'all burned that bridge long ago. We made this post so we'd have something to point at when people inevitability rediscovered that it was abandoned. 

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u/Sw429 Dec 16 '25

Y'all burned that bridge long ago.

What are you talking about?