> The mental safe space of old time kernel developers?
As long as they are the majority of the kernel developers, their wish is what matters the most.
As long as they are the majority of the kernel developers, their wish is what matters the most.
This problem is not expected to be solved by current maintainers. They're just asked to make room for the next generation. "It should hurt you like it hurt me" is not an acceptable response.
> Does the proverbial rust programmer who doesn't know C even exist?
I have seen enough Python or JS programmers learning Rust without having any working knowledge about C. Of course Rust is not an easy language to learn for them, as they have to deal with a concept of explicit memory and lifetime that have no equivalent in Python or JS, but otherwise I didn't see any complication specific to Rust.