[zRedShift]

  > Ojeda said that he had been invited to Rustconf this year, which was a good sign, but then his submission on Rust in the kernel was rejected — a less-good sign. The consideration of Rust for the kernel was then highlighted at that conference, though, so there is definitely some interest in the Rust community at some level.

Why was the submission rejected?

[steveklabnik]

I was on the program committee. We don’t generally discuss these details. I can say that this is emphatically not a statement suggesting that this topic is not important. It is very difficult to put together a one-day, single track conference. Putting together a good program relies on carefully balancing many variables. This year (and previous years I served on that committee) there have been many talks that were rejected but we all said “dang, I wish we had an extra day or an extra track.” We received many, many excellent talks, but the downside of that is that some talks that would be great don’t end up in the final program. This is basically true of any conference.