For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I’ve paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.
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I’m safe physically, but I’ll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.
Well that’s sudden.
If the Rust maintainers keep dropping like this, I foresee Linux eventually losing its lead as an operating system. The transition to Rust is absolutely necessary, other OSs are catching up slowly but surely.
And unlike AI, this makes an actual positive difference in maintainability and speed.
Rust isn’t necessary. It can be mildly helpful, but it’s also hurt in that it’s community tends to make it actively unhelpful, just like in this case.
Linux development happened just fine for decades before rust, and while there are benefits to rust from a security point of view, if they can’t maintain the code, they’ll just go back to C and deal with process and policy for managing memory safety.
Some old fashioned c++ and c developers, like me, feel more entitled to entrench more, and see Rust as a political movement, and not a serious tool.
I’m fairly reactionary against adding more Rust to stable projects. While I’m sure at some of that is me being old and set in my ways, the other gives people like me talking points, which may or may not help.
Which ones are those? Linux is a rock, it doesnt budge it just slowly but surely does its thing. Thats why people use Linux, because it serves its purpose and it has been doing that for a while without Rust.