Building Rust-for-Linux on stable Rust

Posted Sep 25, 2024 14:15 UTC (Wed) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)
In reply to: Building Rust-for-Linux on stable Rust by pizza
Parent article: Committing to Rust in the kernel

> The response to the "Rust tooling is still immature and doesn't cover all use cases that some folks need" *fact* should be (and according to the _actual_ R4L devs, is) "We're still working on it; we'll get there", not "waah different standards, give us special treatment instead" or "those use cases don't matter" of the _very_ annoying fanbois that keep coming out of the woodwork.

Now this is a case of shifting the goalposts.

The response is, and always was, "We're still working on it and we'll get there". Nobody has ever said "waah different standards" while asking for "special treatment". The problem with different standards is merely that certain vocal people want "getting there" to happen in zero time. C did not get there in zero time, so why does Rust have to?