Comment by tuna74
10 months ago
It happened because the Android people put in the work to make it happen both in Linux and in Clang/LLVM.
10 months ago
It happened because the Android people put in the work to make it happen both in Linux and in Clang/LLVM.
Putting in the work is one thing, which is what the Rust-in-Linux people are also doing, but there's also the political requirement to force maintainers to accept it. Android was big enough, and happy enough to fork seeing as it had already done that before, that it forced a lot of hands with top-down mandates.
Rust, despite having Linus' blessing to be in the kernel, is still just getting rejected just because it's Rust, completely unrelated to any technical merits of the code itself.
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