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    • SoulWager@lemmy.ml
      9·
      3 months ago

      Can someone distill the good faith argument against rust? Is there one?

      https://xkcd.com/927/

      The problem is that even if it’s objectively better, you can’t magically convert everything instantaneously, and it’s a lot more work maintaining rust and C versions of the same code until everything is re-implemented in rust.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        32·
        3 months ago

        If the rust devs are willing to take on that work, what’s the problem?

        • uis@lemm.ee
          5·
          3 months ago

          It will take more effort than writing kernel from scratch. Which they are doing anyway.

    • uis@lemm.ee
      71·
      3 months ago

      Only one compiler nailed to LLVM. And other reasons already mentioned.