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.

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
    342·
    17 hours 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.socialEnglish
      12·
      3 hours 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?

      • ISO@lemmy.zip
        31·
        3 hours ago

        Can you point to relevant non-trivial public work of yours that has zero CVE’s?

        The more you learn and know, the more you refrain from making such statements. This is universally applicable, and not limited to C or programming. And that’s what makes your “story” suspect.

        Or maybe it’s a reading comprehension issue.

        I used to write non-trivial C code myself btw.

        • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
          12·
          3 hours ago

          That’s quite an insulting insinuation, and no, I’m not going to doxx myself on my pseudonymous piefed account.

          What do you want me to write?

          • ISO@lemmy.zip
            31·
            2 hours ago

            Super-human claims require evidence. And asking for that evidence is not an insult.

    • 0xDEADBEEFCAFE@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      15 hours ago

      You’re kidding yourself if you think most people in this thread are actually programmers. Most people here wouldn’t know the difference between C and Rust code if they saw it, let alone be able to write anything in either language.

      • jasory@programming.dev
        9·
        15 hours ago

        I think that there are certain attitudes that mainly occur to people outside the domain. Like how people endlessly shit on open-source projects, but few of those people are ever actually at the wheel of one.