Re: 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C,? according to Greg Kroah-Hartman

At Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:39:50 -0400 [email protected] wrote:

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> 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C,
> according to Greg Kroah-Hartman ,
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-rust/>.
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> And in contrast, Rust is only stable on a handful of platforms:
> <https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html>.  Most
> platforms are not guaranteed to build or work as expected by users.

And rust can be incredibly frustrating.  I ported several C++ 
libraries/programs to rust.  I eventually was successful, but it was a major 
pain and required a lot of finagling to deal with the borrow checker, 
including duplicating data structures (basicly create parallel classes -- one 
read-only that could be "shared" and one mostly write-only that was not 
"shared".  The resulting code is "safe", but clunky in some ways.  (Maybe I am 
just not any good at programming in rust? Maybe the programs could be coded in 
a completely different way?)  And as for GUI programming -- at this point 
forget it...  There isn't really a GUI binding for rust that is really mature 
enough to use, at least I could not find one that worked for me (actually I 
have long since given up GUI programming in C or C++ -- I use Tcl/Tk for GUI 
programming these days). 

https://github.com/RobertPHeller?tab=repositories&q=&type=&language=rust&sort
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