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State of Rust survey 2024: most Rust developers worry about the future of the language (devclass.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/opensource

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Christoph Hellwig, who likened the addition of another language to a cancer and said that Rust should not be “anywhere near a huge C code base that I need to maintain.”

The article misquotes Hellwig who was against making the kernel a multi language project ie C and any other language due to the complexities that may bring. Not against rust per se. Jfc. It's like people don't read their sources anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While you are correct in that he was technically not objecting to Rust, specifically, that is out of his purview. The decision was already made so, he needs to get on board or move on with life. Adding to that, his objecting wasn't even to code that he maintains but a consumer of his API.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh yes, it was just about what he said. Also I am excited about rust in the kernel. Just the article wasn't quoting him right.