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> No, but like with the community developed dependency solution,

Unless you are deliberately trying to obscure the facts. Sam Boyer et al are no unanimously elected community leaders whose solutions somehow must be included with main distribution.

> So it's more like saying "you can have your own niche ports, just don't expect them to become part of the main language".

This is exactly same for all open source languages, if core maintainers do not like the your change either fork it and implement or use any other language which gives you feature you wanted.



>Unless you are deliberately trying to obscure the facts. Sam Boyer et al are no unanimously elected community leaders whose solutions somehow must be included with main distribution.

Unless you are deliberately trying to obscure the facts, this is irrelevant.

Their project seemingly had the blessing of the core team, it was touted as a community effort, it was adopted and tested by the community at large, it was presented and critiqued in public discussions, and so on.

And then it was shot down, unilaterally, and replaced with no discussion by a never before seen implementation from a core team member.

>This is exactly same for all open source languages, if core maintainers do not like the your change either fork it and implement or use any other language which gives you feature you wanted.

Not really, many open source projects give the community a chance to vote on such things, have core team members that are voted into place, and go out of their way to adopt popular community extensions (as opposed to implement their own core-team only versions).




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