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Re:An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel by ansible on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:28AM (#26817650)
Yep.

I think Bryan Cantrill's talk from 2018 encapsulates things pretty well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU

Bryan is a hardcore C guy, and can write safe and reliable C code. But he has reached the limits of what C can offer in terms of composability and abstraction.

Like Linus, he wants and needs the kind of high performance and dependable behavior for systems programming that isn't possible with a garbage-collected language.

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Re:An RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel by ssokolow on Friday April 16, 2021 @05:58PM (#26839508)
He also wrote a couple of blog posts called "Falling in love with Rust" and "Rust after the honeymoon":

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/18/falling-in-love-with-...

http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2020/10/11/rust-after-the-honeym...

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