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Posted by Miguel Ojeda, lead of the Rust for Linux project,
What often does come up is the negativity towards Rust. It’s good to see that there are voices in the kernel maintainers list that do support rust. See quotes on the FOSDEM slides 45-85. It is unfortunate that the naysayers have been able to drive away at least 2 great contributors. Maybe we do like focusing on the negatives around here too much, because the R4L project is still alive.
The only acceptable Rust for Linux policy should be
Not just no, but hell no.
whats so bad about rust?
Nothing, he’s probably a C/C++ dev who, like the C/C++ kernel maintainers themselves, doesn’t want to change/isn’t ready to move on
