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Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and that it 'makes the world actively a worse place to live' — Linux honcho puts dev on notice for late submissions, too (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 days ago

Whether or not Linus saying this makes him an asshole is completely irrelevant, he was critiquing his code, not the developer himself. His statement about making the world a worse place to live is not even hyperbolic considering how much technology plays a role in our lives. I don't understand this insane obsession with civility especially when the stakes are so high. As jerakor said, we cannot substitute code quality for being nice.