• Ropianos@feddit.de
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    6 months ago

    Obviously it’s a skill issue but don’t you ever make mistakes? If Rust prevents some bugs and makes you more productive, what is not to like? It’s a new language and takes time to learn but the benefits seem to outweigh the downsides now and certainly in the long run (compared to C at least).

    Maybe Torvalds didn’t give in to public opinion but made an informed choice?

    The crates are a bit of a problem and I think Rust is a bit overhyped for high-level problems (it still requires manual memory management after all) but those are not principal roadblockers, especially in the kernel.

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      6 months ago

      I do wonder why rust is used in high-level time to time, then I realize the most high-level langs are sht.