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„Rust is gonna save the Linux kernel." – GKH

https://corrode.dev/podcast/s06e04-rust4linux/

by MrBuddyCasino • 2 months ago

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thesuperbigfrog• 2 months ago

Greg Kroah-Hartman has been maintaining Linux for decades.

If he says that Rust is helping Linux maintainers to do their work more effectively, that is great news for Linux. I am excited to see the work advance.

I was skeptical of Rust until I gave the language a try for Advent of Code one year. I found it interesting, but I was uncertain about how it would work in a real codebase.

Later at $JOB, I migrated a troublesome C codebase to Rust as an experiment and the results were eye-opening. We discovered errors in the C code we had not realized were present. We were able to structure the code in a way that was easier to understand. The rewritten code was slightly faster, but much easier to understand and maintain.

It really is a game changer.

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