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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yea that whole Rust drama is a pain. Linus unfortunately brought this upon himself. I believe he is also the guy that can fix it be either: Let's remove Rust from the kernel again or... Saying: Just deal with it, we also support Rust, but Rust isn't mandatory.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 2 months ago

And in the latter, he also need to think about Rust FFI bindings to C.. But I digress now. I don't want to discuss this here.

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 2 points 2 months ago

He can focus on solving the technical problems. Like have a list of things that has to be done in order for people to be happy with it. Missing feature? Starting guide? Limit what features can be used? C to Rust converter? He does not have to solve it alone, like he did with git. He just need to decide the direction.