Re: The Case for Rust (in the base system)

On 2024年09月03日 00:23, the silly Tomek CEDRO claimed to have said:
> Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical
> nonsense'.
> 
> Community seems to C Rust more as a burden than a benefit
> 
> https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/02/rust_for_linux_maintainer_steps_down/
> 
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> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info

Exactly as I predicted.
Only a matter of time until a massive hype settles, and a sense of
reality returns again.

Rust works on Redox, because that OS has been written in Rust from the
get go.
Rust does not work on Linux or FreeBSD, because those are written in C.
It's really that simple!

"But Unix was written in Assembly, and got rewritten in C!"
Yes, but C is pretty close to Assembly, and the Unix codebase back then
was still small, so a rewrite was pretty easy.
Good luck rewriting the entire Linux kernel to Rust without committing
suicide though.

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