As a rust developer, I’m biased, but I think it might be a great thing, if done properly. I’ve also done some kernel dev a while back and it’s full of kernel-specific macros and conventions and boilerplate code. It would at least improve readability and reduce some boilerplate as well as improve on some common security bugs. But seeing as how different C is in kernel context to regular application, this may be the same for Rust, in which case I hope the devs know what they’re doing, because it can easily get out of hand.
The older the Kernel gets, the more Rust it will get.
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I can’t have an impression good or bad about this news. I’m not sure if Rust is an interesting thing. I saw people saying good things about it and other talking hellish about the number of dependencies.
I don’t program for a long time. Used to like coding in C quite a lot.
Hey man, if you want to understand something you have to see it for yourself.
Don’t just look at online forums and try to discern what’s factual. You need your own experience.
Agree. I was just pointing that since I’m out of the scene I can’t have an opinion.
What OSes do not have any Rust code?
Bsd
Yeah wait a while, it’ll get there too
Tell the guy who is using it, not me…
noob here, does this mean rust will come included on Linux, similar to python?
The other commenter already answers your quest, but I will just point out that python doesn’t come included “on Linux”. It just happens to be a dependency of so much stuff that some other packages is going to pull it in. A minimal distro which doesn’t include programs written in python will probably not have python installed at all.
This only means programmers of Linux itself can use Rust to program the Kernel. In example if Rust programmers are good at it, they can use the language over something they are not good at it like C in example. You as the end user does not see any direct difference. Like with any other application if its written in Rust or in C, it does not matter much if you use the binary executable.
This thumbnail hurts to look at.
Do you think the AI was just fed the title to make an image, and successfully combined “rust” and “os”?
