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Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux
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🤞 I’d rather chew glass than deal with C again.
I really think the existing maintainers need to strengthen this. A microkernel sounds like a very good concept, and new college graduates often dont know C or even C++ anymore. Me included, if I would learn a low level language I see no purpose for anything but Rust
It’s unfortunate that Go has become so popular at the expense of modern system programming languages like Rust and Nim and Zig. Go is such a platypus: a compiled language that isn’t a proper system language.