RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama | Loris Cro's Blog
A while ago some Rust / Linux drama hit the news because of tension between people who are pushing for more Rust in the kernel, and those who seem to be opposed to the idea.
Reading the opinions of those involved, and looking at the “evidence”, you can see that people are feeling strong emotions and so it becomes less clear to what extent this is a technical disagreement, a political one, or just personal tension between the individuals involved.
I would argue that there is no way for an external observer to really know in full detail which is the case, but operating in the absence of perfect information is an integral part of the human experience, so we need to form some kind of opinion anyway (as long as we don’t forget that we can’t know the full picture).
One line of thinking that I’ve seen pushed forward from the Rust side of the argument, is that they are just doing uncontroversially good technical work, and that the amount of pushback they’re experiencing is unwarranted.
