https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/[email protected]/ this reply and its parent thread should give enough context. I was going to say you can get more info on his side of the argument on his Mastodon page, but it appears he has taken it down
tl;dr: he wanted some implementation in Rust, people said “but I don’t understand rust”, he said it doesn’t matter because those people don’t have to maintain it, nothing moved forward and he gave up.
Dang, context?
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/[email protected]/ this reply and its parent thread should give enough context. I was going to say you can get more info on his side of the argument on his Mastodon page, but it appears he has taken it down
tl;dr: he wanted some implementation in Rust, people said “but I don’t understand rust”, he said it doesn’t matter because those people don’t have to maintain it, nothing moved forward and he gave up.
Seconded, would love some more context
Edit: Apparently there was Rust drama, again, in the past few days
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-Lead-No-Upstream
Comments are gold lol. You heard it first here folks, Rust is Woke.