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It’s absurd that the C/C++ community is so hard-headed about Rust. Is the Linux kernel in fifty years still going to be written in the same language it is now?
by linotype 2y ago
It’s absurd that the C/C++ community is so hard-headed about Rust. Is the Linux kernel in fifty years still going to be written in the same language it is now?
- firemelt 2y agoI hope so
- linotype 2y agoSo even if in ten years a substantially superior language comes out and can be used to improve the kernel, would that change your opinion?
- fluoridation 2y agoThe people in the thread were complaining about having mixed languages in a core kernel module, not about the language being Rust. Replace Rust with any other language and their complaint would have remained. The Rust people complain about not getting technical arguments against their proposals, but how is "a module that's coded in two languages is more difficult to maintain than one coded in a single language" not a technical argument?
- linotype 2y agoWhat’s preventing the whole module from eventually being written in Rust?