Re: [PATCH 00/18] `syn` support

[Benno Lossin]

On Mon Nov 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM CET, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Just in case I'm not the only ignorant person who didn't immediately
>> know what "syn" is and why we might want 57,000 lines of it in the
>> kernel... :)
>
> Thanks -- I will add something like that.
>
> It has been such a long and recurrent topic in our discussions that I
> guess I was writing from inside the Rust for Linux's bubble.
>
> Just to give a bit more context, it is the most downloaded Rust crate
> (according to crates.io). It (or something like it) is essentially a
> necessity for writing complex macros without too much pain.

It also is used by the Rust compiler itself for some proc-macros of
their own.

Cheers,
Benno