I'm relatively new to Linux and the FOSS scene, but I'm not sure how I feel about the unquestioning devotion to a single person. It seems antithetical to the entire philosophy.

Even if he was maybe right this time...

The dude did a complete 180 as soon as they heard from Linus, like daddy made his decision, and it's final, or some shit...

Edit: To be clear, I understand why developers respect and listen to Linus... I just think there are fundamental issues with this kind of top-down management of such a colossal project, and the desire to defer to one person seems antithetical to the FOSS philosophy.

The quote he replied to:

If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas.

Yeah, lol

Honestly I kinda wish the Rust devs would rather go and support a project like Redox OS and then maybe we can have less drama about all this.

Rust is the future for this sort of systems programming work, and by failing to see that and accommodate its use both Linus and Hellwig are sabotaging the long term viability of the kernel imo. New devs are keen to jump on rust because of how much it does better than C/++ and how much easier it is to make safe and secure systems with it, but shit like this just demotivates that crowd and thins the pool of people who are willing to contribute going forward. We need memory safety by default, the task of kernel stability is only going to get more complex and unsustainable without it. Stop holding onto tradition and purity for the sake of it