Alex Gaynor recently announced he is formally stepping down as one of the maintainers of the Rust for Linux kernel code with the removal patch now queued for merging in Linux 6.19.

Alex Gaynor was one of the original developers to experiment with Rust code for Linux kernel modules. He’s drifted away from Rust Linux kernel development for a while due to lack of time and is now formally stepping down as a listed co-maintainer of the Rust code. After Wedson Almeida Filho stepped down last year as a Rust co-maintainer, this now leaves Rust For Linux project leader Miguel Ojeda as the sole official maintainer of the code while there are several Rust code reviewers.

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    4 hours ago

    I want you to write kernel code for a few years. But we go to Lemmy with the machismo we have, not the machismo we wish we had. Write a JSON recognizer; it should have the following signature and correctly recognize ECMA 404, returning 0 on success and 1 on failure.

    int recognizeJSON(const char*);
    

    I estimate that this should take you about 120 lines of code. My prior estimated defect rate for C programs is about one per 60 lines. So, to get under par, your code should have fewer than two bugs.