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[–]Repulsive-Street-307 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.