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A comment on Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20. Parent comment

Re:Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Mer... by trasz on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:08PM (#31852097)
You're assuming that newer stuff is always better. Experiences with operating systems don't quite confirm this, though. There has been plenty of operating systems in newer languages, and nobody remembers them.
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Re:Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Mer... by ahahahahah on Thursday June 23, 2022 @05:24PM (#31855335)
Isn't parent's very first line, in fact, about how a newer thing was much much worse?
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Re:Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Mer... by tester756 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:58PM (#31855078)
And the reason of that is language choice?
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