rhabarba@feddit.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoRust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkRust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense”arstechnica.comrhabarba@feddit.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year ago “It’s herding cats: introducing Rust effectively is one part coding work and ninety-nine parts political work…” All software development in a team is. More like 20/80 or 40/60 if you’re lucky.
minus-squareTelorand@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoExcept in this case, it was a bunch of old C devs who aren’t just resistant but openly hostile to change, and they’d rather bully people into silence than try to progress.
minus-squareमुक्त@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoWhy isn’t a Rust kernel being developed in parallel ?
All software development in a team is. More like 20/80 or 40/60 if you’re lucky.
Except in this case, it was a bunch of old C devs who aren’t just resistant but openly hostile to change, and they’d rather bully people into silence than try to progress.
Why isn’t a Rust kernel being developed in parallel ?