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[Pre-RFC] DNS domains as package namespaces

Rust Internals [Unofficial] April 27, 2026
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> Sources? In Rust I would say that is not true: Sorry, I phrased that badly. In Go there's so many modules published that it's nearly impossible to remember who writes what. And there's no explicit publishing step, so a skilled developer's ten-year magnum opus will be listed right next to their weekend hackathon. You can't necessarily draw accurate conclusions about the quality of a codebase based on who wrote it. Also, the well-known personalities in the Go community tend to be known more for real-world accomplishments rather than for libraries. For example Brad Fitzpatrick founded LiveJournal and Ken Thompson invented UTF-8. There isn't really the "Ooh, this FLAC decoder was written by DarkDragon19, I know it'll be well-implemented" culture of individual branding.

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