Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”

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Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”
arstechnica.com

Linux people doing Linux things, it seems.

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  1. Eventually all the people who know and are good at cobol will die.
  2. A while before that happens, the people who know it will continually demand more money for their rare skills.
  3. Eventually, the cobol systems out there will need to interface new systems in some way it wasn't designed to and it'll be more expensive to shoehorn the remote system than to let the ancient beast retire.
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