One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"
Wedson Almeida Filho is a Microsoft engineer who has been prolific in his contributions to the Rust for the Linux kernel code over the past several years. Wedson has worked on many Rust Linux kernel features and even did a experimental EXT2 file-system driver port to Rust. But he's had enough and is now stepping away from the Rust for Linux efforts.
From Wedon's post on the kernel mailing list:
I am retiring from the project. After almost 4 years, I find myself lacking the energy and enthusiasm I once had to respond to some of the nontechnical nonsense, so it's best to leave it up to those who still have it in them.
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I truly believe the future of kernels is with memory-safe languages. I am no visionary but if Linux doesn't internalize this, I'm afraid some other kernel will do to it what it did to Unix.
Lastly, I'll leave a small, 3min 30s, sample for context here: https://youtu.be/WiPp9YEBV0Q?t=1529 -- and to reiterate, no one is trying force anyone else to learn Rust nor prevent refactorings of C code."
Maybe that's not a bad thing? If you ask me the GNU people are missing a trick. Perhaps if they rewrote Hurd in Rust they could finally shed that "/Linux".
They will write kernel in Ada
GNU isn't punchy though; as soon as any punchy word get's associated with them, people will use that word instead, and we'll just get GNU/Thermite or GNU/Abson or something.
Easy, GNU->GUN
Gun! Unix? Not!
Are the version numbers going to be mm or caliber?
Gotta be mm to make sense unfortunately, Linux-GUN 7.62.11
Maybe a pipe dream, but I would love to see RedoxOS get some traction. A rust based microkernel is a promising concept.