Post #3896902
2026-07-15 17:18 UTC
there's another better world where the rust-linux project took on a hardline anti-slop stance, forks linux over this, RIIRs out the rest of the C in kernel, and successfully runs away giggling with the institutional support
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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-07-15 17:24
that's the only plausible semi-realistic "just fork it if you don't like it :)" path that comes to mind which isn't a big corporation taking over. a bigcorp using this wedge issue as an opportunity to takeover also feels implausible, but only one of these fantasies is fun to imagine