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Its all just fluff. Might have something to do with Mozilla being left-leaning. Skin color has nothing to do with non-lexical lifetimes.

They will say that they value diversity of thoughts that may come when you have people with various backgrounds, but it is much more primitive in practice, always boiling down to companies acquiring people with certain skin color or gender just for the sake of it.

There are well-known but taboo reasons behind the lack of so-called diversity in tech and other highly intellectually demanding areas. And as long as uncomfortable truth cannot come out in the overly sensitive cultural climate of today, initiatives and policies in this direction will remain misguided.

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The only fluff I’m seeing here is your nonsense about about “taboo” or “uncomfortable truths”, which are usually a hallmark or someone with nudge-nudge-wink-wink dogwhistle objectionable opinion.

Let’s make it simple - having a diverse and welcoming community makes a project more attractive to contributors, and means that it’s more likely to succeed in the long term.

> Let’s make it simple - having a diverse and welcoming community makes a project more attractive to contributors, and means that it’s more likely to succeed in the long term.

Sure, I never argued against fostering a welcome environment for contributors. We need more of this especially in open source, where contributions can be sorely lacking.

Instead I question the notion that Rust needs to have some sort or diversity to succeed. The assumption that it does implies that without diversity Rust will fail. However, Rust is not particularly diverse at the moment and it is certainly successful.

Okay but what does one actually do to make the community more 'diverse and welcoming'? What is preventing a particular person from contributing to the project?

Are contributions currently being rejected based on personal traits?

I think the answer to this question would help me a lot in understanding any of this.

Could also be correlation: Projects succeeding in the long term attract diverse and welcoming communities.

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