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

Teemu Likonen <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:39:57 +0300
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* 2026-07-20 11:10:43-0400, Robert Heller wrote:

> 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, [...]

I found that fun part of learning Rust. The compiler forced me to learn
those concepts of ownership and borrowing mutably or immutably and the
compiler is helpful in that. It gives pleasure to know that I the result
it safe and quite good code.

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