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Now imagine the new COSMIC desktop environment in Rust on Redox, that would be great
Why would that be great? It's so weird that people care this much about what language their OS is written in...
I personally like rust, so I get excited when cool things are done with it because each one makes rust just that much bigger, which leads to it being made that much better.
I see projects like that as more of a statement that "rust can do it" than anything.