Disclaimer: I pretty much don't like Rust, but most criticism of it boils down to culture war.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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The art was generated by AI, and likely the content and the text. Why are you all taking this so seriously?
Not that it impacts the validity of what he’s saying but the art the robot destroying Debian is using the logo for Rust the game, not the language.
*Looks at community name.* Seriously?
I don't know about rust being an issue for debian; but AI is sure an issue. Weird move
The issue is probably the dropping of support for several obscure architectures used by 3 people combined due to there being no llvm support rust relies on
It is. But I doubt they are used by 3 combined people.
The Debian project needs to keep the machines for compiling and testing. And there's probably no other machine of those architectures available for the enthusiasts to actually use.