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Re:Linux Rust Support by eejjjj82 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:29AM (#27746941)
In what way? Rust seems to be proving itself as a reliable mainstay in systems development

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust

The git repo has over 150,000 commits, 3,000 contributors, and 9 years of release history. The last 6 years of which have been post 1.0.

Also, Mozilla has been writing large parts of firefox in Rust since ~2017. There's some interesting writeups on hacks.mozilla, including this one on reducing CVEs with Rust

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/rewriting-a-browser-compon... https://research.mozilla.org/rust/

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Re:Linux Rust Support by lmilcin on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:32AM (#27746966)
Sizes of repos have nothing to do with it. By that measure we should all leave C and convert kernel to C++.

I do embedded development on ARM Cortex-M3 and while it is possible to do this in Rust, I have experienced a bunch of issues with the toolchain and I have decided to stay on C until toolchain improves.

Don't get me wrong, I like Rust. Just don't allow liking something get in the way of practicality.

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Re:Linux Rust Support by ChrisSD on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:42AM (#27747075)
> By that measure we should all leave C and convert kernel to C++.

Microsoft actually did do that in the 90's.

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Re:Linux Rust Support by neerajsi on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:28PM (#27751652)
No. Most of the kernel is in C. Some parts have been in very light c++ since the 2000s.
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Re:Linux Rust Support by pjmlp on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @05:19AM (#27759084)
Vista changed that, as Visual C++ gained stable kernel support, it has been a couple of years now.
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