[aftbit]

Why are the Rust people so dramatic?

[hitekker]

From https://www.phoronix.com/news/Karol-Herbst-Nouveau-No, Karol Herbst is the maintainer of https://docs.mesa3d.org/rusticl.html which is written in Rust.

He also contributes to Asahi Linux, and is apparently good friends with Hector Martin.

It's surprising people are denying his contributions to Rust.

[steveklabnik]

> It's surprising people are denying his contributions to Rust.

I don't think that's what's happening here.

A lot of the rhetoric around all of these situations has a framing of "Rust people" coming into the kernel, and then getting into fights with "Kernel people." It's often combined with various stereotypes of each group, that the Rust folks are younger, less experienced, that the kernel folks have been around the block a few times, etc.

But that framing just isn't the case. The people involved are both: they've been working on the kernel for a long time, and then want to use Rust to improve it.

So if you read your parent very literally, sure. But if you read it within this context, people are not saying that he doesn't write Rust code, they're saying that this idea of "Rust people" is irrelevant to what's going on.

[afr0ck]

All of this drama is coming from the Rust email thread. Please, explain to me how this is irrelevant? I have nothing against Rust in the kernel, but Rust people are definitely dramatic.

[greatgib]

As you said it:

   and then want to use Rust to improve it.

They try to use blackmail and shaming to push for the rust in kernel agenda down our throat when they see that the community is not willing to.

[mirashii]

Karol Herbst was the maintainer of nvidia drivers written in C for 10 years.

[Narishma]

This isn't "Rust people".