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Re:Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel? by varajelle on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @06:18AM (#33078383)
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.

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Re:Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel? by iudqnolq on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:44AM (#33082035)
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.

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