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very good

What about it makes it the wrong tool for the job?

This should be http://ericsink.com/entries/rust1.html

Why can't one use Cargo for bare-metal applications?

In some cases, especially new projects (like a new OS), I think the pain of using an immature-and-powerful language is less than using a mature-and-weak one.

The core team has reserved the right to break backcompat without changing the major version if they find a serious problem in 1.x series. So I expect that it will be a while (at le…

I don't think systemd does follow any semantic versioning: each of the feature releases change the major version.

No one knows, and I don't think there's been (a public) discussion about it by projects leads. The only guarantee is that 1.x will not break anything (according to some definition …

nice catch :)

Would also be nice if the cp replacement (optionally) checks for available storage space before copying files.

I think you should replace 'time' with 'a lot of time'. I've seen several commits that optimize things.

most of the stuff; there are some notes when stuff is outdated

A parser for some lightweight markup language, like reStructuredText, sounds like a good challenge.

Why doubt the amount that can be received from Gratipay? What do you need to see to consider using it for PyPy funding? Would a promise of, say $500/week, be enough to make it wort…

Better it be the team account, to avoid having donors try decide "who contributes how much"... let the team decide. Also, please offer it as an alternative to PayPal on the project…

Please create a PyPy team on Gratipay.

What horrifying Iceweasel bugs did you experience?

No need to wait. You can dive in right now without losing much later (I think changes between now and 1.0 aren't going to be that drastic). The guides are really good.

People would, on the surface, see a different beast, even though it remains 99% the same language. Not worth it. With this argument, every release that adds a new keyword (for exam…