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Rust Derangement Syndrome
(lemmy.world)
Disclaimer: I pretty much don't like Rust, but most criticism of it boils down to culture war.
Why would a programming language destroy an operating system?
Partly it's more of "destroy an ecosystem". Among languages, Rust is at the frontlines of a continuing trend to remove GPL-licensed, community toolkits and put corporate-friendly, AI-friendly toolkits in their place, eg.: replacing
grepwithopenaigrep, which would basically be step 2 in the process of privatizing or corporatizing the Linux ecosystem (and leads to the loss of a number of user freedoms).Hopefully nobody tells the corpos that they can just use BSD if they want a MIT licensed kernel and user-land