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> Fork it and make your own Even Google couldn't pull that off with Android.
Just wait and see. https://www.techradar.com/news/google-fuchsia
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Good code or not, if he doesn't agree with the reason to merge it, why merge it?
Because the code is OK, but the _rationals_ in the commit message (union aliasing is bad) are not. This is for history. If someone, later, say: "We should use union aliasing to fix this", someone would argue "No, we shouldn't because we already states _there_ that union aliasing is bad". You can't consider a such amount of code like the kernel one without its commit history. Here Linus explain why union aliasing is n…
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Swearing in general doesn't damage morale, but swearing at and verbally abusing someone does very much so. That's exactly the kind of treatment that would lead me, if I were a developer, to walk away from the project. In fact, here's an edit which gets his point over in less words, and more clearly: "Honestly, this looks questionable to me. [U]sing a union to do type punning is the traditional AND STANDARD way to do…
And that's the reason PR exists. To translate text written by "knowledgeable person, who writes in not acceptable to everyone language" into "language acceptable to everyone". This also leads to no more direct contact between public and those people and the eternal cries of "we only get PR speak!!" The chances that you get to hear things from the source and never hear things in a way you don't like is almost zero. Yo…
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It's also people who throw fits with little provocation when they don't like things, which sounds fitting to me. Seriously, the thing gets merged anyway but he has to "express himself"
I found your post aggressive. Will you please change it to appease me?