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		johndunne on Feb 7, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns f... I beleive he clarified in the same sentence that he was not calling the language Rust cancer... to quote "where this cancer explicitly is a cross-language codebase and not Rust itself, just to escape the flameware brigade"

int_19h on Feb 8, 2025 [–]

So, to be more specific, he called Rust in Linux kernel source a cancer.

johndunne on Feb 9, 2025 | [–]

It needs to be a little more specific to be correct; a cross language codebase would be the cancer.

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