One of the Rust Linux Kernel Devs Steps Down – Cites Nontechnical Nonsense

Re:One of the Rust Linux Kernel Devs Steps Down – Cites Nont... by hitekker on Thursday August 29, 2024 @02:15AM (#41387873)

A passive-aggressive exit, but not unusual compared to other Rust drama.

> I truly believe the future of kernels is with memory-safe languages. I am no visionary but if Linux doesn't internalize this, I'm afraid some other kernel will do to it what it did to Unix

I wonder how much of the nontechnical reasons were actually technical.

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Re:One of the Rust Linux Kernel Devs Steps Down – Cites Nont... by Ygg2 on Thursday August 29, 2024 @03:37AM (#41388299)

> A passive-aggressive exit, but not unusual compared to other Rust drama.

By Linux kernel drama standards, it was a non-event.

You have the video segment in text, it was pretty non-technical. "NO! We don't want to encode what our assumptions are! We don't want to learn Rust. What do you mean write down our assumptions?"

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Re:One of the Rust Linux Kernel Devs Steps Down – Cites Nont... by rowanG077 on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:19AM (#41390515)

Holy shit. It seems they are poisoning this effort on purpose. They are arguing against something the person isn't even saying.

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Re:One of the Rust Linux Kernel Devs Steps Down – Cites Nont... by hitekker on Thursday August 29, 2024 @10:09AM (#41390991)

That was a dramatic minute, of a 35 minute video. The rest of it, coupled with the behind-the-scenes, may paint another picture.

IMO, I sense a conflict of technical principles (or lack thereof) which manifests as social conflict. That pattern seems to come up in Rust; specification, async, etc.

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