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Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense” (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Linux people doing Linux things, it seems.

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The situation of COBOL has nothing to do with Rust in Linux. C is not replaced by Rust, first. Secondly, there are legitimate reasons why Rust was introduced, as a secondary language. You are conflicting two different cases that are two different problems. It's not replacing a language.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Third, we do not need COBOL. All those systems that are still running on COBOL are businesses that shouldn't exists in the first place anymore.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Like banks and insurance companies?

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