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One thing that I love about Cosmic is that it is made in Rust and is licensed under GPL. This is contrast to the replacement of the coreutils with new, Rust made, which are unfortunately licensed under MIT. Ubuntu rushed to adopt them. One more case of foul play by them after making the server side of snap proprietary.
Why do everyone emphasize the fact that it is Rust based? What difference does it make? Personally, I don't care whether it's written in Rust, Cobol or Brainfuck. Badly written software would be buggy no matter the language.
Modern language that address a lot of common security vulnerabilities related to RAM and CPU usage leaking?
I am an idiot though somebody should explain this better
rust people really like rust
it's a little weird, but whatever makes them happy
Its like locks on a car, sure someone can still break the windows - and if still worried you should just use an armoured car.
But for most of us locks are more than enough to keep people out our shit
I'm not saying you're entirely wrong, but holy crap does that ever come off as a whiny and entitled sentiment.
It's just an analysis of the state of things, I'm sure they don't say that to mean "everything should be done as I like it", but observing how poor the decisions of a wave of devs have been in regards to licencing, most likely for the simple reason they just go with what feels more open, rather than delving into how and why copyleft is a better safeguard for the good of the entire community