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   Sergey Bugaev (bugaevc@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 04:35:31 JST Sergey Bugaev

   I cannot overstate just how important the GCC Rust project is for, like, the future of computing, and everything.

   And yet, under any post on LWN / HN / Reddit, 90% of discussion is people demanding justification for the project's existence. Because how *dare* they develop a compiler that someone doesn't see a use case for?!

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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 04:35:29 JST Ludovic Courtès

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     @bugaevc I’m old enough to have seen the rise and fall of GCJ (Java in GCC), in which Red Hat invested a large number of person-years (and not random persons I should say!).

     I wonder if GCC-Rust will have the same fate, which I interpret as failure due to social issues. Rust has developed an anti-copyleft, anti-GNU, arrogant culture (how would one qualify the “RIIR” slogan? the claim on “memory safety”?). That might be enough for GCC-Rust to remain a niche.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 04:40:12 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Ludovic Courtès
     @civodul @bugaevc Would be rather sad but I could see it happen, hopefully once gccrs gets ~production-ready it would end up being different, commenters after all heavily skew towards representing vocal groups, which aren't always the majority.