Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel development process, Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin has removed himself from being an upstream maintainer of the ARM Apple code.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago
    1. Dumb culture wars around programming languages.
    2. It a lot different from C. In C, you have Typeidentifier variable;, in Rust you have let mut variable : Typeidentifier;, and it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
    3. Some of its safety features (including RAII - a favorite feature of marcan) are both detrimental to the performance and hard or impossible to opt out from.