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Why do you assume he isn't a kernel developer?
by joshsyn 5y ago
Why do you assume he isn't a kernel developer?
- volta83 5y agoAnyone who works in the kernel knows, that somebody dropping an email on the mailing list saying "you should rewrite your kernel in X" is not something that achieves anything. The OP claims that this somehow happened for Rust. People from the outside managed to somehow "push" us to use Rust in the kernel against our will, they dropped an email and we somehow were fooled by this people and started doing it. The OP is "sad"/"disappointed" that this happened. If the OP were a kernel developer, (1) it would be accusing itself of getting fooled (yet their comment does not seem to realize this), and (2) it would know that this is not how the Linux kernel community works.