Comment by dralley
2 days ago
There was no reason to ever think otherwise. The experiment wouldn't have happened if he didn't want to try it and give it a certain amount of backing. He's been pretty vocal about his motivations.
2 days ago
There was no reason to ever think otherwise. The experiment wouldn't have happened if he didn't want to try it and give it a certain amount of backing. He's been pretty vocal about his motivations.
He certainly didn't have any trouble keeping C++ out.
Also in that thread is Greg KH: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2025021954-flaccid-pu...
> C++ isn't going to give us any of that any decade soon, and the C++ language committee issues seem to be pointing out that everyone better be abandoning that language as soon as possible if they wish to have any codebase that can be maintained for any length of time.
Benefits C Vs. Rust are much more impactful than C Vs C++
Oh certainly. And many fewer potentially dangerous complex corner cases than C++ brings.