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'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Can someone distill the good faith argument against rust? Is there one?

https://xkcd.com/927/

The problem is that even if it's objectively better, you can't magically convert everything instantaneously, and it's a lot more work maintaining rust and C versions of the same code until everything is re-implemented in rust.