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Asahi Lina: For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely. (mastodon.gamedev.place)

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For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

I can't share any more information at this time, so please don't ask for more details. Thank you.

If you think you know what happened or the context, you probably don't. Please don't make assumptions. Thank you.

I'm safe physically, but I'll be taking some time off in general to focus on my health.

Well that's sudden.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Redox is advancing, I think it's possible for it to become dominant someday, I don't know the likelihood but if rust in linux dies completely it feels almost inevitable.

would probably be for the best anyway, they're porting wayland and cosmic, would be nice to undo all the technical debt in the long run probably. Not for a very long time though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe in 10 years someone will invent another new language that will solve everything and then all the Rust code will have to be changed again. The cycle continues endlessly lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not just about rust, it's also just that there's a lot of tech debt in the linux kernel just from the design, they don't change a lot because they don't want to mess anything up, redox has been able to learn from all of that.

rust is also an awesome tool for writing OS's however

https://redox-os.org/faq/#what-features-does-redox-have