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[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

For kernel dev it would be a disaster, there's too much implicit action, and abstractions that have unknown runtime cost. The classic answer is that everyone uses 10% of its features over C, but nobody can agree on which 10%.

As someone forced to get up to date with C++ recently, at this point it's a language in full identity crisis. It wants so badly to be Rust, but it's got decades of baggage it's dragging along.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

And now there is precedent for Rust components in the Linux kernel.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It do be like that... a lot of old languages want to be Rust...