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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by agilob on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:49AM (#36122565)
Yes, because it worked out well for Java.
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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by Eldt on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:55AM (#36122615)
Do you mean in spite of?
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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by marcinzm on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:37AM (#36124086)
Seems to have worked well enough for OpenBSD, OpenOffice (and then LibreOffice from that), Jenkins, OpenSSH, Apache Server, WordPress, Inkscape, Webkit and Xorg.
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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:38PM (#36129540)
When did Java get forked? The closest case I can think of is the Oracle/Google lawsuit, which 1. Oracle lost, and 2. wouldn't have even been a thing if Google had forked rather than reimplementing.
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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by agilob on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:55AM (#36192459)
Microsoft forked Java, introduced Windows only APIs, broke some of interplatform APIs. Changed syntax here and there... was sued by Sun. 1997
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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by marcosdumay on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:28PM (#36130285)
Hum, I don't get what you are saying.

You mean it didn't work well for Oracle when everybody moved to a fork?

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