> the Rust maintainers have committed to handling all maintenance of Rust code, and handling all breakage of their code by changes on the C side.
How have they "committed"? By saying they commit[1], I presume -- but what more? Anyone can say anything. I think what makes the "old guard" kernel maintainers nervous is the lack of a track record.
And yes, I know that's a kind of a lifting-yourself-by-your-bootstraps problem. And no, I don't know of any solution to that. But I do know that, like baron Münchhausen, you can't ride your high horse around the swamp before you've pulled your self out of it.
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[1]: And, as others in this thread have shown, that's apparently just out of one side of their collective mouth: The official "Rust kernel policy" says otherwise.
How have they "committed"? By saying they commit[1], I presume -- but what more? Anyone can say anything. I think what makes the "old guard" kernel maintainers nervous is the lack of a track record.
And yes, I know that's a kind of a lifting-yourself-by-your-bootstraps problem. And no, I don't know of any solution to that. But I do know that, like baron Münchhausen, you can't ride your high horse around the swamp before you've pulled your self out of it.
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[1]: And, as others in this thread have shown, that's apparently just out of one side of their collective mouth: The official "Rust kernel policy" says otherwise.