I was thinking the same thing about a video I just watched covering Linus ranting to someone who asked a question on the mailing list about big endian support on risc5.

Basically some guy asked in a single sentence if there was a chance for support and Linus and everyone else wrote essays about how dumb it would be, and I’m wondering why bother reporting on such a niche and completely arbitrary tirade about experimental CPU architecture.

That said it did include Linus writing a long list of similar examples of hardware choices that he finds offensive that was entertaining, and that’s probably why people report every time he rants about stuff; he puts a lot of effort into his opinions and it give people a lot to chew on if they are interested in those topics.

So you’re saying I should vibe code some programming languages, compilers, and libraries

Why are the sponsors not enough? How big is the overhead on this project if multiple companies can’t keep it afloat?

All the negatives listed here seem to include a workaround, and the first is basically just restating that the language sucks. The language is the only real turn off for me.