Comment by linotype
10 months ago
It’s absurd that the C/C++ community is so hard-headed about Rust. Is the Linux kernel in fifty years still going to be written in the same language it is now?
10 months ago
It’s absurd that the C/C++ community is so hard-headed about Rust. Is the Linux kernel in fifty years still going to be written in the same language it is now?
The people in the thread were complaining about having mixed languages in a core kernel module, not about the language being Rust. Replace Rust with any other language and their complaint would have remained. The Rust people complain about not getting technical arguments against their proposals, but how is "a module that's coded in two languages is more difficult to maintain than one coded in a single language" not a technical argument?
What’s preventing the whole module from eventually being written in Rust?
I hope so
So even if in ten years a substantially superior language comes out and can be used to improve the kernel, would that change your opinion?