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'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] [S] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Newsflash: all the things do not need to be multithreaded, there’s an awful lot of code that’s just peachy in a single threaded implementation, thank you very much, and multithreading it is just inviting trouble for no significant gains.

I am waiting for your single-threaded fork of the Linux kernel.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    What percentage of Rust programmers contribute to the Linux kernel?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    What's a rust programmer? Someone who's ever written anything in it? If the same holds true for C, probably a higher percentage than of 'C programmers' given how long that's been a teaching language lol

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Well, academic exercises for grades, I'd call Rust students.

    Throw away programs people do for fun, I'd call Rust hobbyists.

    Pretty much anyone else, doing it for money (a living: roof over head, food on table), or open source contribution - I think they qualify.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    In that case, stil reckon a higher proportion ofl Rust devs contribute to Linux than C devs

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Don't be so sure... I work for "megacorp" and about a year ago word came from on-high: "thou shalt not C (or C++, not that they know the difference) anymore. We are in mortal fear of embarassment that we allowed a mistake to be made that our all seeing oversight should have prevented by mandating the use of safe tools."

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