Comment by astrobe_

> The Rust drama is an uncommon failure of leadership for Torvalds. Instead of decisively saying "no, never" or "yes, make it so," [...]

It feels like over the year he has been sort of beaten into submission both for his outbursts (which I've always found more funny than offensive) and the lobbying of the zealots of a certain relatively young programming language (which sometimes has a little taste of propaganda) against "memory unsafe languages".