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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?!
@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.
@bugaevc the criticism I read the most often is that rustc_codegen_gcc is a better project to invest resources in