I hard disagree. It would be different if it said something like “black lives matter” but “end racism” is far to vague to be useful. People who are deliberately racist aren’t going to stop and the people who are biased will just keep being biased since that’s not racism in there minds.

It is very much not cheaper in the cloud assuming you already have a on prem data center. The hardware stays mostly loaded and unlike the cloud we don’t pay for usage.

I don’t want to spend a bunch of time troubleshooting something. Having a way to move my stuff to a different host when the host crashing is very nice.

Honestly it was pretty dumb to begin with. “End racism” is not really a measurable or actionable goal.

I’m pretty sure Gen Z have no idea how to use it

The more the young generation comes in the less legacy things will be needed

A three node cluster gives you much more flexibility and potentially uptime (assuming you do some sort of HA)

If you server has a major issue it is really nice to be able to offload to different hardware. I learned this the hard way.

Some of that I can see. They don’t want to continue the narrative of oh the poor minorities.

Then again, this is way more of a blanket than anything. Scrubbing all mentions of things like “equity” is a little crazy.

I have a feeling this is just them wanting everything to not be about minority groups.

What hardware are you looking at?

I would do a three node cluster (maybe even 5 node)

Poorly written code causes security problems regardless. C code written these days follows proper security practices so it is less of an issue. Its the random code from 2005 you need to be worried about.

Great programmers often have personality or social problems

There are trade offs both ways. I think the right answer is to take it one step at a time. Write some kernel stuff in Rust and then see what happens in a few years time.

Are you a kernel dev? The people behind the kernel are the ones who are experience. They may be old and grumpy but they also are the ones who make sure that everything is well tested and carefully managed.

“How dare anyone criticize rust” is what this boils down to

Some people are very evangelical about Rust. They take any real concern as a personal attack.

C is much simpler from a language perspective. It doesn’t have safety rails but it also has a lower learning curve assuming you understand computer hardware.

Honestly both takes a bad. On the one hand you should be open to new idea but on the other it is wise to stick with old and tested.

Rust is still a lot newer and less well tested. It isn’t going to replace C any time soon but it is cool that we have some Rust code in the kernel.

Anyway, the sky is blue

I never get involved in drama

I like how everyone took this personally