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It's an Easter egg when the runtime crashes. There was discussion of removing it, but the size was found to be miniscule in comparison to the rest of the runtime.

Note that the runtime will be removed entirely soon, so that text may go with it…

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I figured as much. I do like the "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" part very much.

That one seems like the right length for a runtime error. The others seem far too large and distracting as prefaces for a runtime error.

Why is the runtime being removed? And is there discussion on that somewhere?

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230

It's "just" an RFC, but the notion that has some momentum built up already.

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