from Hacker News

A Linux maintainer admitting to attempting to sabotage Rust for Linux project

by dmm on 2/4/25, 1:35 PM with 14 comments

• by mauricioc on 2/4/25, 2:15 PM

  The real scandal here is the pressure to remove a maintainer based on vague "code of conduct violation grounds" when the supposed "violation" is just expressing an technical preference on code he maintains. Shamelessly weaponizing a code of conduct like this should be a code of conduct violation in itself.

  (I am a big proponent of language interop as an alternative to big rewrites. But opinions differ, and my opinion is worth nothing because I'm not a maintainer of the relevant code.)

• by kalekold on 2/4/25, 2:20 PM

  > This is NOT because I hate Rust. While not my favourite language it's definitively one of the best new ones and I encourage people to use it for new projects where it fits. I do not want it anywhere near a huge C code base that I need to maintain.

  Seems pretty clear cut to me.

  Why do rust developers demand everything be re-written in their language? Especially one of the longest running, largest and most successful C projects of all time? It was never going to work out.

  There are a few brand new operating systems being developed in rust, why not contribute to them instead?