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Written by Urix Turing on 2024-09-09 at 14:01

Good opinion piece in The Register:

Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/09/opinion_column_rust_linux/

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Written by Urix Turing on 2024-09-09 at 14:07

Good article, terrible comments.

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Written by Urix Turing on 2024-09-09 at 14:13

This is an actual comment:

that the new generation finds the tried and true C language too hard / time consuming to learn how to master it.

ie: do not think it worthwhile, so they come up with the idea of a shortcut.

And then this person adds:

Not being a programmer/developer, it seems to me...

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Written by Urix Turing on 2024-09-09 at 20:23

The new generation find the tried and true [ploughing of fields by hand] too hard/time consuming to learn how to master it.

ie: do not think it worthwhile, so they come up with the idea of a of a shortcut.

Not being a [farmer] myself, it seems to me that they are trying to impose this religion of "mechanized agriculture" on the rest of us.

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Written by Urix Turing on 2024-09-09 at 20:25

I know this comment may not be representative of the general C/C++ community, not even the kernel community. But it is this kind of comments that erode the trust in any project

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Written by Urix Turing on 2024-09-09 at 20:27

This is another comment:

The thing that always gets me about computer scientists is when there is a problem, the first thing they do is invent a new language to try and solve it in!

Being a C/C++ developer with +10 YOE, and only 1 with Rust, this makes me want to embrace Rust even more...

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Written by Urix Turing on 2024-09-09 at 20:38

I can confirm that 100% of the comments in the article are from people that only heard about Rust, and a significant % have never touched C...

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Written by Asahi Lina (朝日リナ) // nullptr::live on 2024-09-10 at 08:43

@urixturing It's really funny when people say R4L people don't know C... of course we're experienced C programmers, we wouldn't be able to make Rust work with C otherwise. Rust is a choice, nobody working on Rust for Linux is "bad at C".

If anything, learning Rust has made me a better C programmer ^^

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