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It's official, Rust is an anti C/C++ elitist slur (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It made them nervous because someone might put parts of the original source into Wine. You can't do that in a rewrite in a different language, it doesn't even make sense. The thing the people in this screenshot are gloating about isn't even relevant to this license.

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

It made them nervous for the same reason emulator devs don't touch leaks with a ten foot pole, giving the megacorp any reason to argue your clean house reimplantation is anything but clean is just asking for trouble.