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Right now it is just a hobby and there are still a number of bugs remaining. Since I don't have an income from it, I can't dedicate more time to it. Hiring me would allow me to work on fixing them full time and make the progress much faster


Hey, props to your attitude, and I wish you the best of luck.

Obviously, you've provided value to a company in a really in-demand area. It doesn't feel right to treat the contributors like this. Sadly, it seems that the companies have the power and the intent to just abuse and exploit

I don't have a solution. I am just expressing my frustration from the perceived injustice.


Do you think they already have hired someone to work on it but are just not releasing the source code?


I don't think so. They use an outdated version straight from crates.io (at least in the publicly available version of Claude Desktop).


Seems like it's time to remove links to outdated versions. Replace them with your resume?


I believe crates doesn't really allow that, partially so that people can't easily sabotage the supply chain like that :)


Correct, you cannot remove a version or the whole crate unless very specific criteria are fulfilled. You can "yank" versions. That prevents people from adding the version as a new dependency, but if you relied on it before it got yanked, your build will succeed.

I wouldn't delete old versions even if I could though. My goal is to publish a rock solid library that everyone can depend on and build awesome projects with




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