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Re:Linux kernel in-tree Rust support by canofbars on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:21AM (#23801248)
I have used a bit of rust and c. I found rust significantly easier since the std lib contains a whole lot more useful stuff. And C is starting to get a bad rep like php and cobal have. The next generation of programmers probably won't bother with it and seek jobs using newer and better languages.
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Re:Linux kernel in-tree Rust support by rhn_mk1 on Saturday July 11, 2020 @08:12AM (#23801552)
Rust in the kernel is not guaranteed to get stdlib. Running on bare metal is often done with `no_std`. Remembering how memory allocation in the kernel can happen in a multitude of ways, I'm not even sure the usual stdlib could be leveraged. Strings, for example, allocate memory implicitly.

That being said, apart from a good stdlib, I found Rust much easier than C due to a consistent type syntax, sum types, generics, traits, and the compiler hitting me on the head with lifetime errors.

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Re:Linux kernel in-tree Rust support by wwright on Saturday July 11, 2020 @08:26AM (#23801661)
Even no_std Rust has a lot of nice built-ins, for what it is worth.
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