I cannot overstate just how important the GCC Rust project is for, like, the future of computing, and everything.
And yet, under any post on LWN / HN / Reddit, 90% of discussion is people demanding justification for the project's existence. Because how *dare* they develop a compiler that someone doesn't see a use case for?!
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