This is Linux 0.11 from 1991.

Someone is having fun with a side experiment that has no practical real-world implications.

This stuff is supposed to be fun and we should celebrate when other people are doing fun, pointless things like this. If you're interested then ignore it and move on. There's no need to get involved or comment if a project of no consequence is uninteresting to you personally

I still like it. People are having fun playing with their toy and tool. I have no problem with that.

I have the opposite feeling; I am liking Rust more and more and thinking most of the world's C code should be rewritten. It seems like a sweet spot of enforced memory safety, performance, and human/agent readability.

Of all the tools in software engineering to be overpopular and overused, Rust is an instance where that is a very good thing.

Atleast people aren't AI rewriting things into PHP.

Can you elaborate on what causes that reaction specifically?