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[–] OmegaLemmy 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Too bad the c maintainers will make up mumbo jumbo to not include it

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the kernel has parts being rewritten in rust afaik so perhaps there’s less resistance than you think

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's been a lot of drama with that recently, apparently some of the C devs are making it very hard to get code merged in for rust support, to the point where one of the rust devs is stepping back as a maintainer because of frustrations with some of the C devs

Edit: see this Mastodon post from someone from the Asahi Linux project: https://vt.social/@lina/113045455229442533