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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

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Post by tormeh »

grt_thr wrote: post #10
tirpen wrote: post #3

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.

Compiler behavior is the only thing that matters in any language, as per Hyrum's law. A spec is a useful tool for discussing and building a language, but don't confuse the map for the territory.

Re: Rust has been forked to the Crab Language

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Post by coffeeblack »

dmeijboom wrote: post #14

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.

Forking is an essential feature in OSS, its what OSS is all about.

Re: Rust has been forked to the Crab Language

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Post by dijit »

colesantiago wrote: post #18

Forks of a large project seldom survive, they almost always die with no active development. This is a futile move.

There's plenty of precedent that states forks die, however to describe it as entirely futile is:

A) Not exactly constructive.

B) Possibly untrue.

The move might indeed die, if the rust foundations leadership gets it's act together. Which is a strong push for them to sort things out rather than assuming everything will be fine with their current heavy handed and opaque approach.

Failing this, we could be in a situation with another Rocky linux, FlatCar linux or LibreOffice ;)

(examples of successful forks)

Re: Rust has been forked to the Crab Language

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Post by Hamuko »

dmeijboom wrote: post #14

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.

This doesn't create drama surrounding the Rust Foundation, this is drama directly caused by the Rust Foundation.

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