> there were still people chiding the project for not using Rust

Please provide a link to this comment.

Someone asked an honest question and got reasonable responses that were informative. At no point did anyone chide the project for not using Rust.

> Rust might be a fine language but it has the most toxic evangelist culture, bar none.

Nah, people complaining about the supposed toxic community are noisier than the supposed toxic community.

You need to write some unsafe code in a kernel, but most of the code does not have to be, which allows you to eliminate memory unsafety from almost all code and give more scrutiny to the parts the compiler cannot guarantee for you. I don’t know though if the affected code in openbsd would have needed to be unsafe. Moving towards rust is a possible way for kernels as Linux has shown, but I guess for OpenBSD the pros and cons are different, as it’s striving for a more minimal system and has been affected far less by memory unsafety issues.

You have an awful low bar for what is considered chiding, damn

Then again, your very username implies an indulgence in viewing technology through the lens of fandoms which is... weird