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I believe Linus responded to this very question. I recommend that you read through his email. Basically, technology evolves, and you or anyone else can't stop
by g947o 11mo ago
I believe Linus responded to this very question. I recommend that you read through his email.
Basically, technology evolves, and you or anyone else can't stop that just because you don't like it for whatever nonsense (non technical) reason.
- linuxfax 11mo agoHe also said in that same email regarding Rust that: > nobody is forced to suddenly have to learn a new language, and that people who want to work purely on the C side can very much continue to do so. So any argument that Rust would ever fully replace C in such a way that C would go away and be banned in the kernel is NOT what Linus said. https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/20/2066 https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/20/2066
- Yossarrian22 11mo agoThat’s a reasonable position today, but what about in 20 years?
- g947o 11mo agoDo you know what technology will look like in 5 years? Or even 1 year?
- red-iron-pine 11mo agocuz if you do you're about to make a lot of money gambling on or shorting AI...
- mainecoder 11mo agoAll I know is that RUST will lose skill issue and C will win