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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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[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 71 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it's funny that Linus doesn't think of rust as a tumor, but rather acknowledges that more and more code in the kernel will be written in rust. this was just over a week ago.