| ▲ | Sytten 3 hours ago |
| I am sure why people are so terminally online to care about this. Like Rust for Linux is also here to stay and we can expect that in 10-20y a large portion of the kernel will be in Rust. Obviously the post was boasting, it was meant as a recruitment ad. They actually probably got a few decent candidates from it. |
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| ▲ | lunar_mycroft 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Adding rust to the kernel makes sense. Porting a million lines of code per engineer month is insane, regardless of language (it works out to ~600ms per line total, including review, testing, etc). Anyone who heard about that expectation and thought it sounded good is the opposite of decent candidate. |
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| ▲ | checker659 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What makes it inevitable? |
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| ▲ | Sytten an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It has been approved as the same standing as C and assembly, it is there to stay despite what the haters say [1]. Linus is behind the push and for good reasons. Android keeps demonstrating year after year the benefits, at some point I don't know what else to say. [1] https://www.heise.de/en/news/Linux-Kernel-Rust-Support-Offic... | | |
| ▲ | checker659 10 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Just because something is beneficial does not mean it will be taken up by the community. My question is (and that is what I'm most interested in atm) what makes Rust's adoption inevitable? Are there people paying to make that happen? Are kernel level security bugs that big of a concern now that migrating to Rust is a pressing issue? Do you see what I mean? (Again, just to clarify my comment: I'm not challenging anyone. It's just that there are hundreds of programming languages out there. Rust's been around for a good while. So, why now? And circling back to my original question, what makes its adoption inevitable?) |
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| ▲ | hatefulheart 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Good question, it’s not. You're responding to just another Rust and/or LLM fanatic claiming they can predict the future. Dime a dozen on this board. | | |
| ▲ | Sytten an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I will that the Rust fanatic mantle thank you very much. Check your sources though [1]. I dont predict the future I just listen to Linus. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/ | | | |
| ▲ | isodev 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Hey let’s not put the Rust fanatics in the same bucket as the LLM bros. One is a safe programming language, the other is an overgrown lorem ipsum text generator. We’re not the same :) | | |
| ▲ | binary132 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The fact that you’re both getting lumped in the same shill bucket together should give you pause. | | |
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