https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/[email protected]/ this reply and its parent thread should give enough context. I was going to say you can get more info on his side of the argument on his Mastodon page, but it appears he has taken it down
tl;dr: he wanted some implementation in Rust, people said “but I don’t understand rust”, he said it doesn’t matter because those people don’t have to maintain it, nothing moved forward and he gave up.
Dang, context?
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/[email protected]/ this reply and its parent thread should give enough context. I was going to say you can get more info on his side of the argument on his Mastodon page, but it appears he has taken it down
tl;dr: he wanted some implementation in Rust, people said “but I don’t understand rust”, he said it doesn’t matter because those people don’t have to maintain it, nothing moved forward and he gave up.
Seconded, would love some more context
Edit: Apparently there was Rust drama, again, in the past few days
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-Lead-No-Upstream
Comments are gold lol. You heard it first here folks, Rust is Woke.
Typical Phoronix comments. Go under any somewhat controversial topic and you’ll find stuff
Seems like drama follows these rustacians wherever they go