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Linus Torvalds criticized Rust's automated formatting tool (rustfmt) for making poor decisions about code organization in the Linux kernel. He specifically objected to the tool's heuristics for formatting 'use' statements, arguing that its compressed format makes future maintenance and conflict resolution harder. Torvalds prefers multi-line formatting that allows clean, single-line additions of new imports, and questions whether the Rust style guide's 'small items' rule is appropriate for independent use directives.

Linus Torvalds Vents Over "Completely Crazy Rust Format Checking"

IMO, a good formatting tool needs to be opinionated and the consumers have to get used to it. I can easily understand the frustration but, to me again, people need to get used to Rust and its philosophy, the opposite is just stubbornness and yeah, change can be hard but it is what it is

I also don’t like default <code>use</code> settings amd this is why I changed it. Easy as that, I don’t see reason for rant here

Yeah, that’s a very prettier like… I don’t like opinionated formatters.