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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by TylerE on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:28PM (#24335582)
I don’t see how that conplaint is at all meaningful to kernel development.

It’s typical GNU/Pendantry.

The kernel will not be shipping a rust compiler, patched or otherwise.

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by boogies on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:31PM (#24335613)
The article mentions possible ABI compatibility challenges and I also think it’s not a good thing for a language in such critical applications to only have a single major implementation.
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by eptcyka on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:35PM (#24335658)
The linux kernel still can only be compiled with GCC. Of course, it's a single patch away from clang compatibility, but the kernel has never been compilable with much else but GCC.
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @04:02PM (#24346354)
Android and ChromeOS beg to differ, as Google has been using clang with them for at least around three years now.
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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by eptcyka on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:22AM (#24351423)
Yes, clang compatibility is a single patch away. Google, unlike the vast majority of companies out there, is capable of maintaining it's own forks of the kernel.
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