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Because by making Cyclone's ideas mainstream, which AT&T started alongside Cornell University, the C and C++ devs that so far felt safe from all those RC/GC languages, now had an actually problem as companies started paying attention and embracing the language's ideas, even extending the type system of existing RC/GC languages.

Thus anyone that identifies themselves with the programming language they work with, gets dragged into a us vs them discussion.