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Yeah, I would not like this becomming required. Now, it's still fairly manageable to keep developing and building my own kernels. You need binutils/gcc for your
by megous 7y ago
Yeah, I would not like this becomming required. Now, it's still fairly manageable to keep developing and building my own kernels. You need binutils/gcc for your host platforms, and that's about all. And I have 3 architectures I build for.
If I also need clang and rust for all the platforms, and learn rust, for some questionable benefits... That would make things hard.
- josteink 7y ago> If I also need clang and rust for all the platforms, and learn rust, for some questionable benefits I can see the arguments against needing 2 different C-compiler toolchains, not to mention how this may limit target platform-support to the minimum subset supported by both compilers... But to argue that Rust only provides "questionable benefits" is really not reasonable. Even the hipster Javascript crowd has discovered that providing more information to a/the compiler (Typescript) almost unconditionally provides higher code-quality and better results. When will the C-crowd do the same? When will they shed their "I know better than any machine"-like elitism?
- megous 7y agoRead it as "Questionable benefits in the context of the kernel."