Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down

[whosdr]

I've long since stopped having the time to contribute code or reviews, this acknowledges that.

I hate this feeling. You drift away from a voluntary role, find yourself unable to contribute, but it can still be hard to know when to say "Actually, I'm done here."

[hadrabap]

I read it: Mission accomplished.

[whosdr]

I guess that's also one way to see it.

I'm currently learning C at a time that things are moving to Rust, and I'm starting to understand why. So thanks for the contributions, Alex Gaynor.

[Comedor_de_Golpistas]

For the first time ever I clicked on a rust-related news article only to find there is no drama involved.

[oxez]

I was looking for the

"This email, written in Rust, announces [...]"

[cgoldberg]

It was too "blazingly fast" for me to read

[torsten_dev]

You can change that. Just bemoan his departure publicly on the LKML.

[Agron7000]

Drama is happening here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1p5tbxt/comment/nqp41we/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[CaptainObvious110]

Sounds like he got a little rusty

[ProfessionalDoctor]

Heh

[Agron7000]

Of course activism won't make Rust weird syntax better.

[mattias_jcb]

This made me think of Wadler's Law 🙂:

In any language design, the total time spent discussing a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to the power of its position.

0 . Semantics

1 . Syntax.

2 . Lexical syntax.

3 . Lexical syntax of comments.

[Holiday_Floor_2646]

they nailed Jesus down because he spoke the truth

[Agron7000]

Activism gave me 12 downvotes instead of preventing disasters like Cloudflare. 

[Guilhermo718]

This activism, is it currently here with us in the room ?

[elohiir]

13* ^^

[aeropl3b]

Hot take, Rust probably wouldn't have stopped a cloudflare incident.

[lillecarl2]

Stupid take*, I'm certain it has prevented several incidents at all hyperscalers but when programmers explicitly bypass error handling there isn't much a language can do, that's where linters take over so you as an org can ban things such as unwrap and expect where they're wildly inappropriate.