Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust

Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by bitwize on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:49PM (#24335800)

I'd be more concerned about the fact that the Rust Evangelism Strike Force is hellbent on getting everybody to depend on their exhausts-all-32-bit-address-space-to-build compiler and toolchain -- in addition to whatever toolchain the project currently uses, at least as long as the strangler pattern is being applied to migrate the code base to 100% Rust. GNU software in particular has always been such that the core stuff is bootstrappable from just C.

But it seems, from an RESF standpoint, that the fact that any C code is out there running at all is a crisis-level problem.

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by JoshTriplett on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:55PM (#24335839)

Standing reminder: the Rust project is not a fan of rabid Rust over-evangelism (e.g. "Rewrite It In Rust", "Rust Evangelism Strike Force"), and sees it as damaging and unhelpful. We discourage that kind of thing wherever we see it. We're much more in favor of a measured, cautious approach.

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