Comment by exDM69

> It was perfectly clear what Hellwig meant by "cancer".

No, it is not perfectly clear.

The generous interpretation is that they meant it is "viral", spreading through dependencies across the codebase (which I don't think is technically accurate as long as CONFIG_RUST=n exists).

The less generous way to interpret it is "harmful". The later messages in the thread suggests that this is more likely.

But I'm left guessing here, and I'm willing to give some some benefit of doubt here.

That said, the response to this comment was incredibly bad as well.