This is a pretty solid way to motivate the Rust core team to finally solve the proc macro issue. We've been living with the slowness for so long. Give us wasm and precompiled, sandboxed binaries from crates.io!
I suspect dtolnay is trading a bit of his outsized influence on the community [1] to light a fire, and I think it's working.
Judging by the response I've seen the only thing he's lighting on fire is all the trust he's built up.
"I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company."
https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028