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

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On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 08:28:17PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote:
> On 20/07/26 at 16:39, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > '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/>.
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
>=20
> It's really impressive how much work the developers are putting in for
> coding in Rust:

[...]

> ten releases in approx one year, I'm tempted to buy a book to learn coding
> in Rust :-)

Dunno. "Implementation speed" doesn't count as a quality criterion,
at least IMHO.

Cheers
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