Re:Rust 2024 the Year of Everywhere?
by bsder on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:48PM
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> I want a simpler version of Rust.
That's perfectly fine. However, without Rust, we cannot get there from here.
Say what you will, but Rust is the first language to crack the Linux kernel monolanguage (I don't see Ada in the Linux kernel, for example). That's a good thing as the tooling will then be in place so that RustEasier(tm) doesn't have to go through such a slog to get used in the kernel.
People forget that we went through a similar process with Linux on Alpha. The Alpha port cleaned up a lot of the x86-isms that allowed Linux to be ported to other architectures far more easily afterward.
That's perfectly fine. However, without Rust, we cannot get there from here.
Say what you will, but Rust is the first language to crack the Linux kernel monolanguage (I don't see Ada in the Linux kernel, for example). That's a good thing as the tooling will then be in place so that RustEasier(tm) doesn't have to go through such a slog to get used in the kernel.
People forget that we went through a similar process with Linux on Alpha. The Alpha port cleaned up a lot of the x86-isms that allowed Linux to be ported to other architectures far more easily afterward.