The Lunduke Journal of Technology · Bryan Lunduke
XLibre Dev Creates de-Rusted Git Fork
February 9, 2026·18 min·1 clip
A developer just forked Git to remove all Rust code before Git 3.0 makes it mandatory.
As heard by us
A sharp fork story about trust, portability, and the politics of core infrastructure.
This episode frames the fork as a blunt argument about who gets to shape Git 3.0. The focus is less on the code itself than on the larger questions it raises: portability, bootstrappability, and whether a core tool should depend on a compiler that is not fully trusted.
Why you'd press play
If you want the Rust wars explained with receipts and attitude, start here.
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