The same old arguments...

Posted Dec 8, 2025 11:36 UTC (Mon) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998)
In reply to: The same old arguments... by mirabilos
Parent article: Eventual Rust in CPython

> A society is not measured in how it treats the masses; rather, it is measured in how it treats its minorities.

Err, no, societies that have a minority in the lap of luxury on the backs of masses living in squalor don't get rated very high.

In this case, I feel like people who have Alphas and M68K and the rest of the hardware in question tend to be the technological elite, who have a modern computer to do their work on, and have already decided whether or not to be a part of the FOSS community. It's the young kids who we need to keep the community running for another 40 years.