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this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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I wish rust ppl would listen to the maintainers of the 30+ year old c project.
They have decades of experience maintaining and patching contributions made by people who are no longer active and the small request that those contributions be in the language of the project isn’t something to fight against.
It’s really a bummer when skilled developers fall back on stuff like “if shaming on social media doesn’t work, what am I supposed to do?”
What sort of advise are they giving? I'm out of the loop
The holy and sage advice of the dino developers is to not do Rust. You know, not do a thing that Saint Linus himself authorized. Except Saint Linus is apparently not willing to walk the walk in this particular case.
We're overdue for a Linux fork anyway.
Maybe im wrong but with ARM being the new cpu architecture, rust being new, wayland coming into maturity, etc, it appears as though there might end up being a more x86/x11/C focused legacy kernel and a forked ARM/Wayland/Rust focused new generation one.
Which honestly im fine with. And kinda makes sense. Especially if we get into an era where stuff like x86 starts to get phased out entirely. Which i think we will in the next decade or so. Remains to be seen if thatll happen but i think theres a decent chance at this point.
Correct.
Is there anything in the kernel that makes it compatible with X11 or Wayland over the other? I know that there's a graphic driver discussion in the background, but still.
Im not a dev so idk about that tbh. But i know atleast that programs have issues with it. Its pretty good these days but some stuff still has to use Xwayland as a compatibility layer.
The kernel is unrelated to the choice of display manager.