Comment by yjftsjthsd-h

> You guessed it, I'm talking about Rust, and when you're writing a kernel out of all things, Rust has infinite disadvantages and 0 advantages over C.

I don't think that's a defensible claim, nor that your evidence is compelling. Rust has some disadvantages vs C, certainly - I'd start with number of target hardware platforms, personally - but I doubt that they're meaningfully infinite. Likewise, rust certainly has more than 0 advantages over C; just making the most common memory errors harder to hit would be fairly compelling on its own (personally I like Pascal and Ada for that, but apparently Rust hit the popularity jackpot so oh well). As to rust having CVEs... sure, it's not perfect, but I have to notice that that page shows no more than a handful of vulnerabilities per year, while, say, Linux has had far more vulnerabilities, many of them caused by the exact memory errors that rust tries to fight.

There are legitimate arguments against rust (honestly, your initial claim of bloat sounds plausible), but unless I've missed something this isn't the one I would pick.