What's with the avalanche of new things to learn - has it always been that bad?

[fmc000]

Heh, Hector Martin is that guy with that cartoon character alter-ego right? Asahi Lima or something. He is a very much an exhibitionist. I wonder how many on that mailing list cringe when he opens his mouth.

These Rust "abstractions" (bindings) seem to be absorbing all of the developers time. It has been over a year already and they are still developing them! Just wait until maintenance needs to happen; they are going to be very fragile.

Hopefully some of the skilled developers from Linux will move over to FreeBSD as an end result

I just saw on LKML that he posted a MAINTAINERS patch on which he resigns from his role.

 

[blackbird9]

Sounds like HM didn't get his way then. Good.

And from the linux maintainer the following entirely sensible statement:-

""Don't force me to deal with your shiny language of the day," he wrote. "Maintaining multi-language projects is a pain I have no interest in dealing with. If you want to use something that's not C, be that assembly or Rust, you write to C interfaces and deal with the impedance mismatch yourself as far as I'm concerned."

Completely agree.

"The Linux kernel added support for Rust code on October 3, 2022, shortly after Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich argued that new programming projects should be written in Rust rather than C or C++."

I knew it. Embrace, extend and extinguish. Linux is getting to be far too good, you guys, better slow them down and screw it up.

Embrace, extend, and extinguish - Wikipedia

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