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A community fork of a language named after a plant fungus (Rust) (github.com/crablang)
11 points by glenngillen on April 17, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Does anyone know why there is a Rust fork, and what are the changes to Rust? The README doesn't explain anything.

I only saw https://github.com/crablang/crab/issues/14 Only disagreement with their trademark policy?

Some other summary from reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/12lb0am/can_someone_e...


Yes, it's apparently just that, if you click through to the actual home page:

https://crablang.org


> The Crab build system uses a Python script...

Hold on a minute, this reminds of that one ARM project that needed JavaScript to compile...


The bastards finally did it. They rewrote Rust in Rust.




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