Re: [PATCH 00/13] [RFC] Rust support

From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Sat Oct 15 2022 - 21:44:47 EST


On 10/15/22 21:16, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
> As this thread kind of went silent and as the 'big merge' for this feature is getting closer, here a final plee, inspired by this slashdot post [0].
>
> The post in itself speaks of a new team forming on working on the Rust styleguide, which in itself is still evolving. This makes sense, rust is new, it's not very commonly in use and as with all good things, they evolve.
>
> One comment in that slashdot post [1] I want to bring forward and quote a piece of:
> "i created a new repository, and thought i was being hip and modern, so
> i started to evangelize spaces for the 'consistency across environments'
>
> i get approached by not one, but TWO coworkers who unfortunately are highly visually impaired and each has a different visual impairment
>
> at that moment, i instantaneously conceded — there's just no counter-argument that even comes close to outweighing the accessibility needs of valued coworkers"
>
> Visual impairness is a thing, it does not make someone smarter or dumber. Helping those with visual impairments should be concidered, and not shunted off by saying 'but the rust guys came up with the perfect style, so we should use it'.
>
> Find attached, a diff to the .rustfmt.toml, that should keep things more consistent with the current kernel style.
>
> I'll leave it now to Linus and Greg to concsider this, and will keep my peace (though I hope they actually read it :p).
>

I have to say two advices:

First, don't top-post. I don't know what context you're replying to
(in fact I have to cut the reply context below your message).

Second, please post the patch inline, not attached. git format-patch +
git send-email should suffice.

Thanks.

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