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The Rust for Linux project

Posted Sep 16, 2021 17:54 UTC (Thu) by atnot (guest, #124910)
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It feels like every two months this discussion repeats identically with the same points made each time

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Posted Sep 16, 2021 22:17 UTC (Thu) by tux3 (subscriber, #101245) [Link] (3 responses)

Thay may indicate that no one has given them cause to change their talking points.

I imagine there's a lot of scaffolding, core code, and example drivers to write. Perhaps that's why it takes more than a couple months for them to move to the next step.

If you feel they should abandon their efforts, or not organize conferences to talk about the project's status, you should certainly want to share a good reason why. I think everyone can agree that we'd all like to hear novel discussion points.

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Posted Sep 17, 2021 2:27 UTC (Fri) by atnot (guest, #124910) [Link] (2 responses)

To be clear, I'm very much in favor of rust in the kernel, I just felt a strong deja vu from the discussion. It sounds like that was perhaps just some deliberate retreading of ground for the first day though, I haven't watched the others yet.

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Posted Sep 17, 2021 7:40 UTC (Fri) by beagnach (guest, #32987) [Link] (1 responses)

This is a challenging, multi-year project. I think we can reasonably expect the talking points to remain much the same for months at a time.

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Posted Sep 23, 2021 4:11 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

I think the question is: are they worth repeating?