ray@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 15 days ago'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver dramawww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square141fedilinkarrow-up1386arrow-down17
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minus-squareSoulWager@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-214 days ago Can someone distill the good faith argument against rust? Is there one? https://xkcd.com/927/ The problem is that even if it’s objectively better, you can’t magically convert everything instantaneously, and it’s a lot more work maintaining rust and C versions of the same code until everything is re-implemented in rust.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·14 days agoIf the rust devs are willing to take on that work, what’s the problem?
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·14 days agoIt will take more effort than writing kernel from scratch. Which they are doing anyway.
https://xkcd.com/927/
The problem is that even if it’s objectively better, you can’t magically convert everything instantaneously, and it’s a lot more work maintaining rust and C versions of the same code until everything is re-implemented in rust.
If the rust devs are willing to take on that work, what’s the problem?
It will take more effort than writing kernel from scratch. Which they are doing anyway.