Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20

Re:Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Mer... by dgb23 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:05PM (#31851072)

Thank you for the detailed response. Some of the points are reassuring and/or interesting.

Just wanted to comment shortly on this:

> Could you give examples? From what I’ve seen Rust library authors take care to only pull in what’s necessary. I’d be interested to see these libraries that pull in “unrelated” dependencies.

I would hate to call out specific authors and crates. I would rather see a general awareness and discussion around the issue. Your comment is reassuring though.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Mer... by nindalf on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:36PM (#31852518)

> I would hate to call out specific authors and crates

Yeah I feel you. No need to call anyone out when they're just putting out their work for free for us to use.

That said, I think generally the code that I've seen is good quality. Everyone uses rustfmt, everyone tries to address clippy lints. I've seen PRs in popular libraries dropping optional libraries to get slimmer. Rust libraries aren't perfect, but they're pretty good.

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