I am not fluent in rust. I even never wrote a single rust statement. I fear this step will divide the kernel developer family on a fundamental level. I think this is no good thing to have in Linux. After Microsoft go full haywire on win 11 Linux was a well regarded alternative. I fear the rust situation (and the drama from the rust developers) will drive users away. Just my 2 cents

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johncolanduoni 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If drama was going to drive Linux kernel developers away, it would have just been Torvalds working on it alone for 30 years. For better or worse, that community has selected for having very thorough antibodies to conflict.

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oblio 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

1. Which drama?

2. End users absolutely do not care in which programming language an application (or OS, they can't tell the difference and don't care) is written in. They only care if it does the job they need quickly, safely and easily.

	▲	notthemessiah 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm guessing he means Rust voicing solidarity with Ukraine and sympathy with everyone affected by a conflict? It's hard to tell when people vaguepost. I guess wars of invasion/annexation are too controversial to oppose. "Before going into the details of the new Rust release, we'd like to state that we stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and express our support for all people affected by this conflict."