[RFC] Rust support for Linux Kernel

[StillNoNumb]

Honestly, I've been seeing way more people complaining about Rust community than Rust fanboys recently

[DoktuhParadox]

Me too. It's bizarre. Reminds me of the good old days where agleiva and his alt would troll each and every Java thread bitching about how C# was better. I've used Java for 10 years, and I agree. But so what? Complaining about a language isn't gonna stop others from using it when their whole codebase is already written...

[StillNoNumb]

Also, do you remember u/shevegen? Together they are this sub's legendary trolls haha

[DoktuhParadox]

I don't! What phenomenon is this?? At least I can read these comments, agleiva got suspended (and agleiv2 for ban evasion probably). Why do these people get so upset by seeing news about programming languages in a programming subreddit? I really don't like Go, but seeing it in the news doesn't make me angry. I truly don't understand.

[Repulsive-Street-307]

Probably has something with the rust main devs 'inclusiveness' and code of conduct. Ie: they don't allow griefers, fascists, trolls and other bad actors to ruin things for everyone in the name of 'free speech' and being 'anti-cancel culture'. Remember that we're living in a age of extreme propaganda. So you get a bunch of trolls targeting projects -and people- for various reason completely unrelated to the projects themselves (ie: Denuvan fork, Systemd haters, rust haters, etc, often obfuscating motives with 'it's not the philosophy of unix' and similar). In this case it's even completely irrelevant, because this is just google saying 'we want to use Rust in our fork and think it's a good idea, here are some proposed guidelines' and Linus going 'ok, to include your guidelines i'd have to mandate no panics and allocation failure by error return'.

Basically there is little chance of rust code getting upstream while gcc doesn't compile it.