Comment by steveklabnik

He said

> (where this cancer explicitly is a cross-language codebase and not rust itself, just to escape the flameware brigade).

Where the cross-langauge in this case is Rust. Rust for Linux is creating a cross-language codebase. That means Rust for Linux is cancer.

> and not rust itself, just to escape the flameware brigade

is like when people say "I'm not trying to be rude, but" and then says an incredibly rude thing. Saying "I think this abstract idea is cancer, and you're the specific instance of this abstract idea, that doesn't mean I'm saying you are the thing" is incoherent.