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One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Wedson Almeida Filho is a Microsoft engineer who has been prolific in his contributions to the Rust for the Linux kernel code over the past several years. Wedson has worked on many Rust Linux kernel features and even did a experimental EXT2 file-system driver port to Rust. But he's had enough and is now stepping away from the Rust for Linux efforts.

From Wedon's post on the kernel mailing list:

I am retiring from the project. After almost 4 years, I find myself lacking the energy and enthusiasm I once had to respond to some of the nontechnical nonsense, so it's best to leave it up to those who still have it in them.

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I truly believe the future of kernels is with memory-safe languages. I am no visionary but if Linux doesn't internalize this, I'm afraid some other kernel will do to it what it did to Unix.

Lastly, I'll leave a small, 3min 30s, sample for context here: https://youtu.be/WiPp9YEBV0Q?t=1529 -- and to reiterate, no one is trying force anyone else to learn Rust nor prevent refactorings of C code."

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Someone linked the thread from Phoronix forum and the comments are so awful. Imagine having to deal with people like this.

One of them reads:

We need Microsoft people like we need fleas. Why can't they work for projects we don't like, like GNOME?

It is funny because Ts'o works at Google, lol.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Phoronix comments are a special place on the internet. Don't go there for a good discussion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I once started reading the comments on bcachefs. It was a extremely heated for no reason. People were screaming on the nature of btrfs

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Phoronix comments were always dumb, like, infuriating bad, I don't even read them anymore, the moderation on that site don't give a fuck about toxicity in there

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Beyond moderation, Phoronix is a case study in why downvotes are a good thing. Those idiots going on dumb tangents would continue, while the rest of us can read the actual worthwhile comments (which does happen, given AMD employees and the like comment there sometimes).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Avis/Bridei/Artem has been active as a super troll on that forum for years and absolutely nothing had been done

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've asked one question, one time in those comments and it just got buried in people spitting venom at each other about their file system preferences.