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0 pointsnickm124y ago0 comments

This is a misunderstanding. Amazon and AWS use "tenets" as a tool for focusing and aligning a team on what it values. The Rust Principles are an application of that tool for the Rust project, not adopting the exact same tenets that teams at Amazon/AWS use. See this 90 second video for a quick rundown of how tenets are used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5raEKA57PMY

(Disclosure, I'm an Amazon employee and am familiar with how Amazon uses Tenets for teams)

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vjust4y ago

AWS tenets are good for AWS. Rust has its own tenets. Both should be kept separate.

nickm12OP4y ago

Yes, that is exactly what is happening here! When the Rustacean Principles were created, Niko said in his blog post[1] that the idea of creating principles was inspired by AWS. Not that the principles themselves were taken from AWS.

Writing tenets is a tool, like making a checklist is a tool. You can use the idea of making a checklist without using the checklist items.

[1] https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2021/09/08/rus...

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