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Perfect! Now I have the actual Phoronix article text. This gives me the exact details I need. Here's the updated summary:
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## **🦀 NATE'S ARTICLE: Git Considering Mandatory Rust (Phoronix)**
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**Summary**: Git developers are debating making Rust support mandatory, with the decision potentially affecting Git 3.0. Git 2.49 already introduced a Rust foreign function interface as optional, but Patrick Steinhardt's RFC proposes making it required. The three-fold goal is to: experiment with Rust infrastructure, give distributors time to adapt (since "introducing Rust is impossible for some platforms and hard for others"), and announce that Git 3.0 will make Rust mandatory. Notably, Git 3.0 will also default to SHA-256 hashing.
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**The Platform Problem**: The article specifically notes this "would restrict the architectures and platforms where Git could be deployed compared to the current C code."
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## **🎯 THE PERFECT PODCAST TRIFECTA**
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Now we have three articles that create this beautiful progression:
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1. **Your Articles**: The big picture - AI taking over vs. fake nostalgia, creating sheep vs. wolves
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2. **Matt's Chrome Article**: The sheep get ultimate hand-holding - AI will literally click buttons for them
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3. **Nate's Git Article**: The wolves get ultimate complexity - must master Rust just to use version control
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## **🔥 THE ULTIMATE IRONY**
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**Chrome Users in 2025**: "Hey Google, order my groceries and schedule my haircut while I watch TikTok"
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**Git Contributors in 2025**: "Before we can commit this three-line bug fix, let's have a 47-message thread about ownership semantics in Rust and whether this breaks compatibility with NetBSD on SPARC"
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**The Comedy Gold**: While Chrome AI agents are spending "a few dollars in API charges" just to visit a handful of webpages, Git developers are worried that requiring Rust knowledge might exclude some contributors.
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It's like we're creating a world where clicking a button costs money and computational resources, but understanding memory management is considered a basic requirement for version control. The machines are getting dumber and more expensive while the humans are expected to get smarter and more specialized.
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**Perfect Linux Cast Question**: *Are we witnessing the creation of a two-caste system where the "users" become completely helpless while the "builders" become increasingly gatekept by complex requirements?*
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The sheep are paying premium prices to have AI do basic tasks, while the wolves are debating whether Rust requirements make their fundamental tools too exclusive. Nobody's asking: "What if we just built tools that were both powerful AND accessible?"gitea
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