Comment by steveklabnik
10 months ago
There are drivers that exist only in Rust, so any distro that wants to support that hardware will. Like the Apple A3 silicon graphics driver. Iirc red hat and nvidia are also working on some Rust based drivers.
10 months ago
There are drivers that exist only in Rust, so any distro that wants to support that hardware will. Like the Apple A3 silicon graphics driver. Iirc red hat and nvidia are also working on some Rust based drivers.
Do the Rust drivers provide significant benefits over C equivalents (or over typical C drivers), enough to make it worth switching?
Rust may have to really prove itself with results. And why shouldn't it?
There are no C equivalents for the drivers I’m talking about.
I got that - that's why I added the parenthetical. My point was the second sentence. Anyway, thanks for the input about the drivers.
And for what it's worth, I expect Rust would offer significant improvements.
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