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The Rust situation was handled badly. Two languages (one of which has panics and all sorts of version issues) in one kernel are clearly not viable. Linus should have put his foot down and mandated C instead of stringing people along.

That of course was difficult in the corporate environment of 2014-2024. Perhaps he was forced to do it.

In many areas, sanity has returned, so perhaps we can get clearer messaging again in the future.

Even if he did that, which I'm not in a position to judge:

That is an entirely different situation from facing inner circles in an open source project while contributing to a major port.

Sock puppets aren't taken seriously while the word of the inner circle is taken as gospel.