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Linus Torvalds Would Reportedly Merge Rust Kernel Code Over Maintainer Objections
The drama surrounding Rust code within the Linux kernel continues..
Today he's out with another mailing list post where he notes that Linus Torvalds mentioned in private he would override maintainer vetoes on Rust code within the kernel. But that also shows how core maintainers are put off by trivial things like checking for integer overflows or compiler enforced synchronization (as in the clang thread sanitizer). If we just want to make writing drivers easier a new language for that pushes even more work and increases the workload on the already overworked people keeping the core infrastructure in shape.
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