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Looks like Paolo served you a slice of humble pie there at the end.
Please keep this kind of FUD elsewhere, thank you.
Yeah...until Christoph replied and confirmed what Hector was saying was true and not FUD. He didn't mince words, he said he did not want Rust in Linux whatsoever, only for new codebases, not existing ones like Linux.
Christoph is an engineer and has been for a long time. There are probably considerations he is making that you either cannot or are refusing to fathom. He's clearly not against rust in general, just in mixing languages in one codebase.
To be clear though, I personally don't have a horse in this race, I am speaking somewhat as an outside observer, so i gain nothing from you getting your way or Christoph his.
Stop and think without attributing malice to why someone in his position would make the statements and decisions he's making. He's not an idiot.
We should be looking at his given reasons, not making assumptions based on some ineffable set of considerations that he might have.
Christof's given reason of complexity is sensible, it's also one already considered when allowing R4L in the first place; adding rust language support has been deemed worth the additional complexity.
Deemed by who though?
Either Linus or Greg K-H, likely after feedback from many others.