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Rust has been forked to the Crab Language

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Re: Rust has been forked to the Crab Language

#11
I'm just getting into Rust and loving it. This is a big yikes.

This is forking for all the wrong reasons. I mean, as a Rust user, why should I use your compiler fork?

I am hopeful the same thing will happen than with node.js/io.js, and it will iron itself out.

Re: Rust has been forked to the Crab Language

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Well, people fork languages and libraries all the time. Does this fork have a significant amount of support? By whom? Or why is this news worthy?

Rust has been rather monolithic. There is no such thing as a rust spec, just whatever the rust compiler does. This is a good first step to making it into a language people work in rather than just blog about.

A code-identical fork with a different name for trademark reasons is not going to make the Rust team write a spec. Look to the GCC Rust implementation for that.

Also, people already do work in Rust. It's in the Linux kernel right now.

Re: Rust has been forked to the Crab Language

#20

This happened a while ago and was related to the trademark/copyright issue. It’s an immature move and I can’t take this seriously. All this does is creating unnecessary drama surrounding the Rust foundation.

> All this does is creating unnecessary drama surrounding the Rust foundation.

They are doing a fantastic job of creating drama all by themselves.

I don't use Rust, but the constant childish bickering has turned me away from even caring to.

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