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monocasayesterday at 10:32 PM1 replyview on HN

Dave Airlie is saying that the subsystem maintainers are themselves choosing to move to Rust.


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ceteiayesterday at 10:42 PM

But what about this statement that Linus wrote:

> That's been made clear pretty much from the very beginning, that nobody is forced to suddenly have to learn a new language, and that people who want to work purely on the C side can very much continue to do so.

If any C developer developed drivers in C previously for the DRM subsystem, they might in the future be forced to learn Rust.

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