Some of the hostility I've read about from Linux kernel devs over Rust is kind of insane. I can definitely understand wanting to pull back on working in that space because of that alone. Tack on kiwifarms (if you don't know them, just read the wikipedia article on them, they're awful by basically every definition of the word) and yeah, this makes sense.

Thanks for the info! First time I’ve ever heard of that site. Just looked it up… … oohhhh. No bueno.