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Rust drivers expected to become more common in Linux kernel (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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[–] Kissaki 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

those who’ve coded C for twenty years might not understand the issue

or the opposite because they have that experience

[–] FizzyOrange 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah that's definitely true, but also the people who have been doing it for 20 years have a huge amount of knowledge and experience invested in dealing with memory unsafety. Lots of people don't want that investment to be "wasted", so they try to maintain the status quo, even if it is worse for them.