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[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Isn't it reasonable for a maintainer to say "no rust here" when they don't know rust, don't want to learn it, and have decades of experience in C, and are maintaining that part of the system

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

Yes.

But that's not what's happening here. The guy who said no is not the maintainer of the rust code, and is not expected to touch the rust code at all.