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Brodie Robertson Feb 9, 2025

I'll be doing a video on the Rust linux stuff, but the short story is Linus needs to put his foot down and decide what's happening with Rust, the way things are going can't be allowed to keep happening.

Either say you changed your mind Rust is not happening and tell the Rust fans to piss off and shut up about it, or tell the people trying hard to stop Rust to grow up and learn to work as a community. Sitting around watching these fights happen over and over again is a waste of everyone's time.

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Random Tux User Feb 9, 2025

@BrodieOnLinux
While I agree that torvalds picking any side is probably better than nothing, I honestly think that backing out of rust at this point is a mistake.

It be basically cementing the idea that the Linux kernel development can literally never change and that any attempts to change it will be fiercely resisted. Plus there are already drivers and such written in rust. Throwing all of that now would be a huge waste.

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Brodie Robertson

@enthusiast101 As it currently stands those drivers basically don't exist, they will never be merged into the upstream kernel. I want Rust to actually be brought into the kernel but as it stands nothing is going to change.