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Arbitration at least, or some form of: Torvalds Yes to Rust, No to Small-town Dictators

arstechnica.com As the Kernel Turns: Rust in Linux saga reaches the “Linus in all-caps” phase

Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can’t interfere with it.

Besides Marcan resignation, not much on other recent turmoils, or, more importantly in my view, the use of "Thin blue line" in the language of the anti-rust dev

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As unfortunate as this whole episode has been, it is great to have this clarity from Linus. It feels like quite a straight-forward guideline to apply to future situations. Hopefully it will really cut down on the noise and drama between the pro-Rust and anti-Rust camps in the kernel.
As long as Linus stays consistent with the stance he outlined here, things should go well.
- A bit late tho. This should have been his first reaction, as underlined in the article, rather than coming after losing Marcan and Herbst.
  As a Asahi user I am a bit partial to this: the kernel has tons of corporate-backed devs on a stable payroll - Asahi is 100% volunteers, and this shit reminds us of the frailty of it all.
  And of the human being behind:
  https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead/