I wondered as well and I think they're just used to calling their contributor team members 'staff', like you needed to be voted in as a contributor then you are 'staff', apparently oftc does the same thing
hn is kind of notorious for having most of the people in a thread have pretty similar opinions, reddit is another one if you try criticizing anything about certain companies in the wrong channel there are going to be a bunch of people who will target your account with massive down votes so that the comment is removed
I've always found computer algebra systems a particularly fascinating niche in computing, implementations in accessible languages like Julia are really doing a service to enthusiasts and learners everywhere!
tl;dr Gentoo requires users to build packages locally meaning they are dependent on the build software for a library to have Gentoo support for their architecture. Rust has limited support for some of the architectures Gentoo otherwise supports. Since this is an important crypto library adopting Rust Gentoo may have to drop support for certain currently supported architectures.
I think I saw something about reports that FB has hired a number of individuals to work full-time on the Rust lang, so there are probably lots of companies contributing to Rust in ways that don't get them features on the website.
Despite my aversion to these 'live-coding' environments for compiled languages, I'm actually interested to see what can be managed with Rust. The dynamic linking they are using sort of reminds me of rust-analyzer which quickly re-parses it's tree at every save. I don't code in a way that normally requires interpretative feedback but quality tools like evcxr might contribute to changing my habits.
It's a failing of many licenses where if the binary isn't modified then the rest of the software doesn't need to be similarly licensed. This goes against the spirit and intent of these licenses. Simply wrapping a OSS product in proprietary service layers is antithetical to the spirit of the open source license and not in the best interests of the community.