“don’t quote the shouty bit; it’s not all shouty”

Marcan pretty clearly isn’t saying that feature requests wore him down. He’s saying that people saying “what you’ve built so far isn’t useful” wore him down.

(Plus, your original analogy about parents and children is completely lost by now.)

Not sure if this was intended as a response to me?

Presumably by people like Marcan working to make it happen, rather than by random people complaining it’s not already done.

The bit you quoted from the post explicitly said “most x86 laptops”, not “all”.

That one actually seems plausible, if he ever learns about that whole thing

Christoph Hellwig isn’t criticizing Rust the language, and Hector Martin isn’t claiming that he is. This is about a project, Rust for Linux, that has been endorsed by both Linus and GKH, and one maintainer personally attempting to stop it from moving forward.

Unlikely, unless his view has changed substantially in the last seven years: https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/01/11/TheDarkPath.html

I think his views on how to achieve good quality software are nearly antithetical to the goals of Rust. As expressed in that blog post and in Clean Code, he thinks better discipline, particularly through writing lots and lots of explicit unit tests, is the only path to reliable software. Rust, on the other hand, is very much designed to make the compiler and other tooling bear as much of the burden of correctness as possible.

(To be clear, I realize you’re kidding. But I do think it’s important to know just how at odds the TDD philosophy is from the “safe languages” philosophy.)