Alex Gaynor recently announced he is formally stepping down as one of the maintainers of the Rust for Linux kernel code with the removal patch now queued for merging in Linux 6.19.

Alex Gaynor was one of the original developers to experiment with Rust code for Linux kernel modules. He’s drifted away from Rust Linux kernel development for a while due to lack of time and is now formally stepping down as a listed co-maintainer of the Rust code. After Wedson Almeida Filho stepped down last year as a Rust co-maintainer, this now leaves Rust For Linux project leader Miguel Ojeda as the sole official maintainer of the code while there are several Rust code reviewers.

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
    773·
    2 days ago

    Understandable. I’d have been admitted to the asylum (again) after just a few hours of ‘working’ with Rust.

    What? Rust syntax is fucking awful. Ugly, unlogical, unreadable. The build process is fucked up as well.

    • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev
      41·
      13 hours ago

      Caring about the syntax of a programming language is a sign that you haven’t properly engaged with it. While not completely unimportant, what matters at the end of the day is the languages semantics. If you program in rust for more than ‘a few hours’ you will stop thinking about the syntax directly. Trust me, I do a fair bit of work in the cmake language, you can learn to work with any syntax.

    • Snarwin@fedia.io
      12·
      1 day ago

      If you can learn to read int (*funcs[])(void*, void*), you can learn to read Rust.

    • cornshark@lemmy.world
      242·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, after working so long with the elegant simplicity of C and C++, I just don’t think I can tolerate a crappy hacked together language like Rust.

    • noddy@beehaw.org
      9·
      2 days ago

      If you’re trying to write C code in Rust for a few hours you haven’t really given it a proper go. You’re just fighting the compiler. Believe me, I’ve been there. It was just the learning curve before I put aside my pride and adjusted how I wrote code.

    • sobchak@programming.dev
      13·
      2 days ago

      It’s ok. It seems a bit ad-hoc to me compared to some of the higher-level academic languages I like (Haskell, Scala, Clojure, Chapel, etc). It’s much simpler than C++, and more expressive than C though.

    • Mihies@programming.dev
      6·
      2 days ago

      Coming from managed languages I found syntax weird, but got more comfortable in few days 🤷‍♂️ If you’re used to one language, then usually the other looks weird initially

      • Corbin@programming.devEnglish
        31·
        16 hours ago

        C also sucks. Also, stop misgendering yourself; when you respect yourself more, you’ll respect others more, and then you’ll stop saying that people are cancer.