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But why wouldn't have happened with Rust? Sorry I can't find anything about Rust in the article. Or you mean if the Linux kernel was written in Rust and that st
by senfiaj 3mo ago
But why wouldn't have happened with Rust? Sorry I can't find anything about Rust in the article. Or you mean if the Linux kernel was written in Rust and that stupid bool coercion was not possible?
- grg0 3mo agoIt's the latter; Rust won't allow the int->bool coercion. Though to be absolutely pedantic, !x is an int for x:int in C, there is no bool coercion involved; an if-statement takes an expression of any scalar value and evals to true on non-zero. Not that that helps to avoid introducing bugs anyway.
- IshKebab 3mo agoBecause Rust programmers would have used an enum or Result.