[LINUX] Airlie: On Rust, Linux, developers, maintainers

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Dave Airlie makes an analogy between the stages of road building and those of adding Rust to the Linux kernel.

For the wayfinders the process of interacting with maintainers is frustrating and slow, and they don't enjoy it as much as wayfinding, and because they still only care about the hotel at the end, when a maintainer gets into the details of their particular intersection they don't want to do anything but go stay in their hotel.

The road will get built, it will get traffic on it. There will be tunnels where we should have intersections, there will be bridges that need to be built from both sides, but I do think it will get built.

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