Here’s the scolding Linus SHOULD have given Hellwig MONTHS ago.

I said it before and I’ll say it again. Martin was wrong, and got treated fairly. He threw tantrums and stirred drama instead of acting like a maintainer.

But. That didn’t make Hellwig right. He wasn’t right. He was way out of line and over his skis, being hostile for hostilities sake.

Unfortunately many rust programmers already have a sour taste in their mouth regarding Linux development, which is a huge loss for the progress of the project.

Sorry about that, I’m seeing the same. Here’s the site linked from the Internet Archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20240328153801/https://swehb.nasa.gov/

The NASA secure coding standards are overbearing, obnoxious, over-engineered, and a huge waste of effort.

But they are absolutely correct and the best guidelines I’m aware of.

https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/NASA/NASA-HDBK-2203

https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/NASA/NASA-STD-871913

https://dev.to/xowap/10-rules-to-code-like-nasa-applied-to-interpreted-languages-40dd

Martin was out of line.

Hellwig also was out of line and unnecessarily hostile.

Linus… Is the voice of reason? Though I would have preferred he rebuke Hellwig in the same breath.

It’s a strange 2025.