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Greg Kroah-Hartman... urged fellow contributors to embrace those interested in contributing Rust code to improve the kernel.

"Adding another language really shouldn't be a problem... embrace the people offering to join us

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Unsafe Rust may be similar to C

It's really not. I'd much rather use C than unsafe Rust...

The best part about Rust is you can isolate your memory safety problems to the unsafe bits, whereas with C, you have to constantly deal with it.

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