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Sorry I didn't pay that much attention to musk before he started going mainstream? I don't make it a point to keep track of every billionaires flaws unless they become relevant to my life.

Making a feature request is one thing but complaining isn't helpful especially when they're working on other things. It's not like they're sitting on their asses doing nothing.

I do get the irony, but I also do get where he's coming from about users always asking for more.

I'm also a plain compositor person but gnome is my favorite DE and sometimes I kinda miss the polished DE experience. My productivity doesn't...but sometimes I do lol.

Even as a systemd user I'm starting to feel the kitchen sink creep in

Yeah, I agree with you. After seeing the latest drama I get why marcan was annoyed but also IMO his response only escalated the situation and was unproductive so maybe having someone else handle the upstream code will work out better for everyone.

Yeah I agree here. I'd expect my laptop to stay asleep if it was asleep to begin with. Also I find it kind of annoying that in order to fix bugs they have to change Linux to mimic windows, especially when it's a situation like this where the change specifically results in a different behavior which is noticable to users.

Sounds like a government

...look man, I'm going to say this as simply as possible because you keep mischaracterizing or misunderstanding a lot of what I say. I'm not making any claims about kernel policy, full stop. I never did.

I'm not saying his behavior is justified in regards to calling rust a cancer, I'm just saying that he is making a legitimate technical complaint, regardless of his motives...and EVEN if he wasn't, name calling is unproductive.

C is high level ASM, Linus has said that as a quote, I personally agree with it having written both, it's an opinion, not a statement of fact, you can disagree all you like but the fact that some kernel maintainers share the opinion is a valid point to bring up in this conversation about multiple languages causing a divide. I will find the source for his quote if that will satisfy you.

Lastly, the point I'm trying and failing to make is the kernel is 1% ASM, rust when fully brought into the kernel will comprise far more than 1%, additionally it is FAR more different to C than ASM is regardless of your opinions on the C is high level ASM statement. It WILL create a language barrier, the question is how significant will that be. The ASM is a small minority of kernel code, rust won't be.

C is basically high level assembly. It's hardware agnostic high level assembly. I have written both, this is personal experience and also I believe even Linus has said EXACTLY that statement. It is an opinion ofc and you're welcome to disagree but it isn't just me.

I never said it was a policy but it's definitely true. Inline assembly IS still assembly. I'm saying if the code can be written in C it more than likely will be over assembly unless there is a very good reason to write it in ASM. The kernel is 97.97% C and just over 1% ASM. If that doesn't prove what I'm getting at Idk what else will. It's a totally different circumstance than replacing large swaths of C with rust or introducing large amounts of rust in favor of C.

There are already 2 languages in the kernel: C and Assembly

Assembly and C share a very very close relationship. C is really just high level ASM and ASM is used as little as realistically possible in the kernel so the situation is different.

That already happened and Linus decided to accept Rust code into the kernel.

Doesn't mean you should neglect the opinion of every other maintainer. I'm not saying rust shouldn't be included here or that Linus shouldn't have the right to override his opinion. I am saying calling names as opposed to discussing his concerns is not productive. FOSS is a collaborative space and that collaboration is important even if redundant at times.