>I don't understand why they had to taint this beautiful work with stupid license politics It's pretty simple reasoning: Rust evangelists want to maximize Rust

>I don't understand why they had to taint this beautiful work with stupid license politics It's pretty simple reasoning: Rust evangelists want to maximize Rust usage. Period. Replacing GPL-licensed tools with alternatives written in Rust is an easy way to bootstrap this. Compare with: paperclip maximizer (https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer)