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Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux

Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux

Posted Aug 30, 2024 21:09 UTC (Fri) by asahilina (subscriber, #166071)
In reply to: Linux-for-Rust or Rust-for-Linux by jgg
Parent article: Rust-for-Linux developer Wedson Almeida Filho drops out

> It is basically unusable except for unmerged toy projects and it is still not obvious when that will change.

I guess my Apple AGX GPU driver, which is the kernel side to the world's first and only OpenGL and Vulkan certified conformant driver for Apple Silicon GPUs, and also the FOSS community's first fully reverse engineered driver to achieve OpenGL 4.6 conformance, and which is used by thousands of Asahi Linux users in production, and that literally has never had a reported oops bug in production systems not caused by shared C code (unlike basically every other Linux GPU driver), is "an unmerged toy project".

Since you work for Nvidia, I'm sure you've heard of Nova, the up-and-coming Nouveau replacement driver that is also written in Rust using my Rust DRM abstractions. Is that also going to be "an unmeged toy project"?

This kind of demeaning of our work is why us Rust developers are getting very, very tired of the kernel community.


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