2026-09-26 21:39 UTC
Imagine the impact this would have on the community. Imagine trying to raise money required to re-litigate 5 years of work from a hundred contributors. Would Python continue to exist? Would we just have to immediately vaporize all progress made in the interim, start over at 3.14 and desperately fix 100 CVEs at once, carefully _not_ backporting all the fixes? Would every ecosystem package author need to join in to this all-hands-on-deck effort?
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-09-26 21:42
Now imagine this happens to Linux. It's impossible to redeploy half-a-decade-old kernels without automated help for the security fixes. So, to "help out", Microsoft releases a version of Windows for the Cloud with an up-to-date WSL on it, so you can keep using your Linux software while you migrate to the "legally less risky" windows API. Windows is still equally full of slop of course but nobody can prove it without public source and they have a legal team, so you could actually install it.