I don't quite get this concern about proprietary JS. I agree JS can be malicious, but it has nothing to do with license. Or you can say you don't want to give your data to Slack.

I sympathize with those who object to proprietary JS, but in my case I'm mostly annoyed at having to run code just to read static content - quite heavy code, too. When I have a lot of discourse.julialang.org pages open, my browser noticeably chugs.

Often it has nothing to do with maliciousness or data aggregation, it's a matter of principle: not supporting proprietary software.

Remind me of Rust with the added bonus of requiring a GitHub account to upload crates.

FWIW Rust has a zulip, I'm on it, it's the only community I'm part of on zulip.

It's mostly frequented by the infrastructure teams. :)

Apparently the compiler team is also >primarily< there: https://rust-lang.github.io/compiler-team/about/chat-platfor...

You can add crates from other registries or git urls.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/specifying-depende...

That's not the issue - the issue is uploading crates to crates.io not using crates published by others.

That's what I meant though. Neither parts needs to use crates.io.

The issue is that crates.io is essentially a GitHub account owners only club. Although I guess that's Rust development in general.