Due to the ongoing drama surrounding Rust and C developers in Linux, Rust for Linux Lead Miguel Ojeda has decided to publish an official Rust kernel policy
I’m not too familiar with what happened, but I do know that the Rust for Linux project has been progressing slower than expected.
Hopefully, this situation gets resolved given Rust’s memory-safe features.
It’s something that has happened in tech over and over, as well as with a changing world in general.
People have invested years in a particular skill, then a new skill comes along and threatens to make their experience and ability obsolete.
That causes a lot of resistance.
An interesting example is XML being replaced by JSON, leading to a lot of frustrated and bitter XML experts who couldn’t sell their skill anymore.
It’ll keep happening in different ways in different industries.