Comment by gary_0
10 months ago
> by not intervening he essentially endorses that getting rust into the kernel requires consensus from all subsystem maintainers
And let's not be obtuse, some of those subsystem maintainers are staunchly opposed, so "it's up to them" is obviously an indirect way of saying "no rust". I don't blame those maintainers for balking at a whole new very different language, but Torvalds has a choice of telling them either "suck it up, buttercup" or "I hear you; rust is gone". Instead, he's just letting things fester.
This seems like black and white thinking. There's a huge spectrum between
> "suck it up, buttercup" or "I hear you; rust is gone".
where various levels of compromise happens.
Maintainers are people and people can change their mind over time. If rust was a huge success in large parts of the kernel and you still had a few holdouts, sure, you could tell them to adapt or go away. In this early stage, it's kinda up to rust people to show that both they and rust can work in this setting