Comment by vednig
10 months ago
Linux is one of the most complicated OS in the history of OS and both of them understand this in someway or the other, it's still not cracked enough market share to dominate the personal computer market even in 2025, but is already on millions of other devices except PCs and a small change in decision like r4l brings the whole perspective into matter, after the fact that rust is highly compute intensive language and low end processors might not be able to catchup the speed in the best possible way these industries work, memory is cheap to include and hence the decision to include Python was a comparatively easy one, but rust is a highly balanced choice currently which makes the decision more difficult for Linux to include R4L in kernel, hence the dissolution on parts in which to include.
This is based on my limited experience with rust, but I believe we really need to give rust more time to mature it enough to see where we're going with the builds to actually decide on this matter, even personally. Plus, Linux has been keeping the Linux Kernel project alive for so long that he probably already has got the experience of knowing the repercussions of a wrong decision. Being hasty in this scenario doesn't solve the problem
> the fact that rust is highly compute intensive language
care to elaborate on that?
rust utilizes various methods at compile time which significantly increases compute, such as compiler is optimised for memory safety, which causes it do a lot of tasks and changes at compile time unlike C and inturn during execution to ensure ms, which could easily be avoided, it is good for overflow situations but in terms of compute required in exchange for the program is simply(currently) not at the level that would be great to have in Linux kernel, in a few years maybe
So when you say its compute intensive, you only mean at compile time, is that correct?
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Arguably the billions of Android phones/tablets running the Linux kernel are the personal computer market.
Exactly my point in terms of the chipsets, and the limited acceleration in capacity of evolution per year for small chip manufacturing companies unlike mediatek and qualcomm, furthered by silicon shortage and many other manufacturing facts, including a language like Rust at this stage should be subject to observation.