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Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment (www.phoronix.com)
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While Linux 7.0 is the next kernel version solely over Linus Torvalds' numbering preference, there is a notable symbolic change that was sent in overnight for this new kernel merge window: formally concluding the "Rust experiment" with upstream kernel developers now in acceptance that Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay.

The patch was talked about back in December that the Rust experiment is over and it's here to stay. There are already uses for Rust in production environments, some Linux distributions shipping with Rust kernel code, and millions of Android devices also using it.

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[-] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 29 points 18 hours ago

I don't see any future for C++ and forcing such ugly language in the kernel might lead to problems.

Lembot_0006 is to blame here more than C++. Zig/D/Hare/whatever would be much more straightforward and welcomed by the kernel community update from C. And Lembot_0006 is afraid of Rust.

C++ will kill Linux if it persists there long enough .

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 13 hours ago

I don't see any future for Zig/D/Hare and forcing such ugly language in the kernel might lead to problems.

Arcterus is to blame here more than Zig/D/Hare. Fennel would be much more straightforward and welcomed by the kernel community update from C. And Arcterus is afraid of Fennel.

Zig/D/Hare will kill Linux if it persists there long enough .

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago

Sounds interesting:

Fennel is a programming language that brings together the simplicity, speed, and reach of Lua with the flexibility of a lisp syntax and macro system.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 54 minutes ago

It does sound interesting, but I was mostly joking just to extend the copypasta.

I don't know enough about programming to know whether it's even suitable for writing a kernel. As far as I'm aware, Lua is mostly used for embedding scripts like in games, but the engines themselves are better written in C or Rust. I would assume a similar concept applies for writing a Kernel.

Perhaps it would have made more sense if I said Fortran or PS-Algol. It would have been more clear that it was a shitpost

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