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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by Too on Saturday November 01, 2025 @04:03PM (#45784864)
It’s usually a loud minority of trolls or hobbyists. It just takes one to spark a doubt.

Here is one famous example of a dude who’s managed to get PRs merged in dozens of packages, just to make them compatible with ancient versions of nodejs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831811

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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by combyn8tor on Saturday November 01, 2025 @05:46PM (#45785697)
Wow that was an interesting read. I find it amusing that nobody seems to really know who he is or what his motives are, yet his code is run on millions of machines every day.
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