TL;DR: They want to fix this, it's a lot of work that no one's being paid to do, there's a roadmap with specific tasks that need doing, volunteer contributions are welcome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
Obviously, the situation has changed in recent years, so it's now considered a much higher priority by many people and some of them are actively working on it. But it's a lot of work to be done by volunteers, so it takes time.
That's the reality of open-source projects: things get done when they are important enough to motivate someone to either fund it or work on in their free time, not according to idyllic roadmaps and schedules.
10 (edit: 8) years ago MS took over Github. The writing was on the wall then...
No need to explain OSS to me, I maintain and contribute.
While this might have been true in rust-circles (which I'm an outsider to), I think this varied a lot in different circles. Most free software projects invested a lot of money, time and effort in setting up better (for themselves) alternatives to Github.
Everything from videolan and GNU Savannah to XDG, Gnome, KDE, etc.
aren't they like some kind of non-profit (in the legal sense) that is still able to take a lot of money (from players like Google and Co, to justify fixing this), as opposed to ... say the Zig foundation, ... that is is also "non-profit" but can't get money the same way?
