A “de-Rusted” fork of Git has been created by the lead developer of XLibre (the popular Xorg fork).
Described as “Git with WD-40 applied”, this fork (which removes Rust code) appears to be in preparation for the Git 3.0 release, coming later this year, which will make Rust a hard requirement for Git.
When reached for comment, the developer (Enrico Weigelt) stated:
“Making sure Git remains running on any kind of platform and cpu-architecture, as well as reliable and stable, instead of being limited to a few architectures only and depending on a non-trusted compiler that can’t even be fully bootstrapped without some untrusted binary.”
This echoes similar concerns with Rust adoption recently made by a long time developer of the NetBSD project.
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Brian Kernighan -- UNIX and C legend -- was asked about the Rust programming language replacing C.
“Ohhh, Rust! I have written only one Rust program, so you should take all of this with a giant grain of salt. And I found it a — pain… I just couldn’t grok the mechanisms that were required to do memory safety, in a program where memory wasn’t even an issue!”
"The support mechanism that went with it — this notion of crates and barrels and things like that — was just incomprehensibly big and slow. And the compiler was slow, the code that came out was slow…”
"When I tried to figure out what was going on, the language had changed since the last time somebody had posted a description! And so it took days to write a program which in other languages would take maybe five minutes!"
"I’m probably unduly cynical. But I’m... I don’t think it’s gonna replace C right away, anyway."
[These statements were made at the Vintage Computer Festival East in April, 2025.]
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Istio 1.27 is out!
This release adds Gateway API Inference Extension support to help run AI workloads on Kubernetes.
Ambient mode now supports multi-cluster deployments in alpha.
Learn about these and many more features and bug fixes: https://t.co/b3guC2zJWe
Today, Linus Torvalds told a Google engineer that his code (updating RISC-V support in the Linux kernel) is “garbage” which “makes the world actively a worse place to live”.
Adding that the Google engineer’s code needs to “get bent”.
As you might have guessed, Torvalds has rejected that code submission.
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