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Comment by tokyobreakfast

17 hours ago

By modernizing do you mean rewriting mature software in a meme language with less features than the original and introducing new bugs in the process?

The Rust smokescreen is mostly being used to slowly eradicate the GPL.

Like Lenin said, "Who stands to gain?"

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wrs  17 hours ago

"Meme language"? There are plenty of memes about C, and they aren't as flattering.

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