I came for the Rust kernel drama, I stayed for the sick LLM burns.
I love LWN. Like with HN the comments are far more interesting than the article. I'm a huge Rust fan that's been using it since 1.0 and it's adoption by the linux kernel is one of the most interesting social phenomena I've seen. The tug of war between stability/backporting and moving forward with Rust in the comments is fascinating.
Yes I also read HN for the comments mostly. They are better than just above any site in the internet, except LWN. That makes this LWN comment extraordinary, because I'd place as the most best I've read on LWN all year: https://lwn.net/Articles/993714/
[1]: https://lwn.net/ml/all/2024092614-fossil-bagful-1d59@gregkh/
If they refuse but care enough, then back port all the necessary Rust stuff to your Franken-kernel too. You even get the advantage that you know the Rust side is checked for correctness by the compiler in a way C wouldn’t be.
“We can’t do X now because Y wasn’t in the kernel 7 years ago” is a very odd argument.
It really can’t be the policy of the upstream to restrain enhancements because they might make backports harder. Companies get paid, and paid well, to do those backports! Let them be responsible for that burden.
To what? The article outright mentions that Rust support is still experimental at best, nor is Nova anywhere near ready to get merged into the mainline kernel.
If Kernel maintainers don't let their future plans influence their current decisions, then they're throwing away the benefit of foresight and potentially sabotaging those future plans.
Now 3 years later, the property market is horrible so you'd sell at a loss, your first child is on the way and you're worried about the 23th floor apartment that you bought that's far from child-care facilities and playgrounds.
Posted 3 days ago.
