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robinei | 1 year ago

That's the theory. However, isn't likely that as things like the new Nova Nvidia driver is written in Rust, the things that depend on Rust are suddenly so important, that shipping with it disabled is unrealistic, even without a policy change. (I don't think this is bad)

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microtonal|1 year ago

Rust for Linux is currently experiment. If a larger number of widely-used drivers get written in Rust and developers prefer writing them in Rust over C, then I guess it's time to declare the experiment a success and flip the switch?

cyanydeez|1 year ago

When rust is important, the problem bootstraps itswlf.