[dralley]

>Even now with Hector out of the picture, there’s still no suitable path forward for rust in Linux

The suitable path forward is to submit the patch series like normal to Linus, where it will be merged regardless of CH's NACK. CH isn't able to actually stop this process, he's just being a jerk.

However, I agree with you that it would have been nice to actually publicly clarify the situation rather than ignore it and deal with the whole thing behind closed doors. It shouldn't need to be explained that letting this sort of thing fester is a great way to kill motivation in a project and ensure it's less likely that new people will get involved.

[Den_VR]

The reasoning Linus himself gives for greenlighting Rust is, among other things, to avoid stagnation. In practice, CH is doing everything he can to stonewall and sabotage efforts to subsequently bring Rust to solve problems. This explosion, now, was plainly a consequence of months and months of failure. And that anyone name-calls to blame that failure on “a drama-seeker” leaves me to wonder about the future of Linux 20 years from now.