How much more? When it comes to whether I’d write GPU drivers for money, I can tell you that LF doesn’t pay enough, Collabora doesn’t pay enough, Red Hat doesn’t pay enough, and Google illegally depressed my salary. Due to their shitty reputation, Apple, Meta, or nVidia cannot pay enough. And AMD only hires one open-source developer every few years. Special shoutout to Intel, who is too incompetent to consider as an employer.
This is basically what you said here, and it’s still wrong: social dynamics, not money, is the main reason why young hackers (don’t) work on Linux. I’m starting to suspect that you’ve not hacked kernel before.
There is no evidence that any human understands computers.
In addition to the sibling comment, note that reproducible build systems from Docker to Nix require a lockfile in order to be reproducible, and if you don’t provide one, then somebody downstream will provide it instead. By checking in Cargo.lock, you ensure control over the precise versions of your dependencies for all downstream users.
I’m not really sensing contrition here. For those who don’t know, contrition is the part of an apology where the apologizers commit to changing something about themselves, improving who they are as people, so that the trespass is not repeated in the future. Without contrition, dtolnay will do this again.
Well, dtolnay is ex-Palantir. Perhaps he should not receive the benefit of Hanlon’s razor.
At some point, reading kernel code is easier than speculating. The answer is actually 3. there are multiple semantics for filesystems in the VFS layer of the kernel. For example, XFS is the most prominent user of the “async” semantics; all transactions in XFS are fundamentally asynchronous. By comparison, something like ext4 uses the “standard” semantics, where actions are synchronous. These correspond to filling out different parts of the VFS structs and registering different handlers for different actions; they might as well be two distinct APIs. It is generally suspected that all filesystem semantics are broken in different ways.
Also, “hobby” is the wrong word; the lieutenant doing the yelling is paid to work on Linux and Debian. There are financial aspects to the situation; it’s not solely politics or machismo, although those are both on display.