2024-09-10
10 分钟A Rust for Linux developer resigns amidst rising tension in the Linux community, Bret Victor shows off what he's been working on for years, Rachel (by the bay) laments how useless "SRE" has become as a role, Doug Turnbull makes the case for hiring junior devs & Baldur Bjarnason says the LLM honeymoon phase is about to end.
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I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, September 9, 2024 after our conversation with Alya Abbott last week, we decided to try Zulip in earnest for a while.
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Is Linux collapsing under its own weight a rust for Linux developer Wedson Almeida Falho resigned from the project after an unfortunate interaction with another maintainer.
Wetson's parting words Quote I am retiring from the project after almost four years.
I find myself lacking the energy and enthusiasm I once had to respond to some of the non technical nonsense, so it's best to leave it up to those who still have it in them.
End quote after that, Asahi Lena, who is a developer of the Apple GPU drivers for Linux, sounded off with her own frustrations with maintainers and Rust from the DRM perspective.
Her conclusion Quote But I get that feeling that some Linux kernel maintainers just don't care about future code quality or about stability or security anymore.
They just want to keep their C code and wish us Rust folks would go away.
And that's really sad and isn't helping make Linux better.
End quote the post I'm linking to is in response to those two events.
The author, who goes by cb, thinks they, quote signal deeper issues in Linux, both technical and cultural.
End quote Some of the technical and cultural issues are explained in the post.
What does this mean though, for the Rust for Linux project?
CB says I think Rust for Linux as a project is in danger not because of technical reasons, but because of social ones.
It's trivial for a maintainer who doesn't want Rust to sandbag integration efforts for their subsystem for for whatever reason, not liking it, not wanting the workload, etc.
Just refusing to help.