Re:Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel?
by iudqnolq on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:41AM
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If Linus had said "rust can't accommodate the idea kernel needs nead to trump rust needs", I'd buy what you're saying.
That line came from Linus educating a single wrong member of the rust community.
It only shows that person wasn't using rust in a way that accommodated kernel needs, not that it's impossible or even difficult to do so.
Re:Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel?
by varajelle on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @06:18AM
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What are these "rust needs" that are incompatible with "kernel needs"?
Stuff like faillible memory allocations are being worked and rust doesn't have so many needs by itself.
Re:Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel?
by iudqnolq on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:44AM
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A single person argued to Linus a broad amount of the kernel's internal API should be painstakingly refactored to be philosophically rust-y. Linus said no way, that's not what we're doing here.
Luckily, that's not what the Rust for Linux project has been doing either.
> As Linus recently put it, “kernel needs trump any Rust needs”. The kernel is simply not an environment which will bend to accommodate a language; it must go the other way around.