Hector/Lina are back in the news because of drama surrounding the encroachment of Rust into the Linux kernel. For the non-technical thread readers, RAII (Resource Acquistion is Initialization) is a pattern common in languages like C++ and Rust. The tl;dr is that this is an idiom where saying something exists also allocates the resources for it (memory in this case) and saying it should stop existing frees those resources. This is extremely common and good in regular userspace applications because it simplifies the management of resources and makes it easier to avoid leaking memory.
However in the kernel, explicitly deallocating shit the second it stops being used is problematic due to the fact the kernel is running the entire computer and so taking the time to allocate/deallocate whenever composite data types move in and out of scope can interrupt the actual important shit the kernel is doing (like scheduling processes, handling network traffic, etc) and there are certain conditions where code using RAII incorrectly can hang the entire program.
As such, the Linux kernel jannies are not interested in having this in the kernel. They'd prefer to stick to more boring memory management patterns. What is Hector/Lina's response? "RAII is technically good and correct and gives me the dopamine when I see my objects dtoring. Also I'm a heckin valid woman so fuck you kernelchuds"
The drama has reached the point where rustrannies have tried rewriting some of the surrounding C code for the Direct Rendering Manager to support their mental illness which then resulted in an immediate bitchslap from the maintainers followed by several of the rustrannies 'quitting.'
