@withoutboats, those are some good points. I certainly have come to understand that mapping / to _ won’t get off the ground.
I intended this proposal as a compromise to try to fix what seems to be a growing rift in the community, and I’m a bit worried that improving branding alone won’t go far enough to satisfy the namespaces camp. Technical decisions shoulnt be political so take that with a grain of salt.
I also think it would be a real shame to end up with a situation where branding was focused on the authors of a crate rather than the crate itself.
The name mapping issue has to be resolved, and it’s worth trying to get some input from those who feel strongly about namespaces needing to exist in some form.
Certainly, I think making branding more visible from the UI would be a great thing.