Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 1 month agoPutting aside the ideological discussion about software licenses, saying that “they” are forcing Rust into the Linux kernel is a bold claim when Linus Torvalds clearly doesn’t mind the inclusion and even encourages it for example in driver code, at least as an experiment.
semperverus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He really wasn’t at first, and it was extremely clear that he allowed it in as an olive branch to the Rust community. A “let’s see if I’m wrong by giving it a chance” moment.
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Linus Torvalds is the last person to extend an olive branch to anyone contributing kernel code. Anyway, big news: lwn.net/Articles/1049831/
semperverus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thats a very depressing article, im sorry to hear the bad news.