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Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps Down (www.phoronix.com)
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Alex Gaynor recently announced he is formally stepping down as one of the maintainers of the Rust for Linux kernel code with the removal patch now queued for merging in Linux 6.19.

Alex Gaynor was one of the original developers to experiment with Rust code for Linux kernel modules. He's drifted away from Rust Linux kernel development for a while due to lack of time and is now formally stepping down as a listed co-maintainer of the Rust code. After Wedson Almeida Filho stepped down last year as a Rust co-maintainer, this now leaves Rust For Linux project leader Miguel Ojeda as the sole official maintainer of the code while there are several Rust code reviewers.

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 47 points 4 months ago

In this thread: people who believe the myth of the safe C programmer. The one who has memorized the spec and is able to hold endless context in their brain while writing code. They themselves are C compilers.

[-] eleijeep@piefed.social -4 points 4 months ago

the myth of the safe C programmer

I learnt C around about 1997 and I've used it off and on professionally since about 2006. I am not a myth, and there are many others like me.

What do you want me to write?

[-] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago

What do you want me to write?

To meet the bar set by onlinepersona, you'd need to write safe C code, not just some of the time, but all of the time. What you appear to be proposing is to provide evidence that you can write safe C code some of the time.

It's like if somebody said "everyone gets sick!", and some other person stepped up and said "I never get sick. As proof, you can take my temperature right now; see, I'm healthy!". Obviously, the evidence being offered is insufficient to refute the claim being made by the first person

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