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Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more "nontechnical nonsense"
How long can the C languages maintain their primacy in the kernel?
Still, one key developer in the project to expand Rust's place inside the largely C-based kernel feels the "nontechnical nonsense" is too much, so he's retiring. Noting that "a subset of C kernel developers just seem determined to make the lives of Rust maintainers as difficult as possible," Lina detailed the memory safety issues they ran into writing Direct Rendering Manager(DRM) scheduler abstractions. "But I get the feeling that some Linux kernel maintainers just don't care about future code quality, or about stability or security any more," Lina wrote.
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