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

On 23/07/26 at 21:20, [email protected] wrote:
> 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/>.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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

maybe, however something good it should be real otherwise packages like 
"sudo-rs" they wouldn't be made. Another thing I forgot to say, those 
data comes from Trixie (stable) I don't know what is happening now in 
testing at Rust libraries…

Kind regards,