'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.
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.
And rust can be incredibly frustrating. I ported several C++ libraries/programs to rust. I eventually was successful, but it was aI found that fun part of learning Rust. The compiler forced me to learn
major pain and required a lot of finagling to deal with the borrow
checker, [...]
'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.
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 codingDunno. "Implementation speed" doesn't count as a quality criterion,
in Rust :-)
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
On 23/07/26 at 21:20, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:[...]
Yes, but my question above: is it better?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?
Yes, but my question above: is it better?
On 2026-07-25, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
Yes, but my question above: is it better?
As we know from Darwin, things evolve. They don't evolve toward
"betterment"; there is no evolutionary goal. There is only adaptation to environmental constraints.
Yes, but my question above: is it better?
Somehow this wave reminds me of the last wave of Rust brigading. It
tends to happen with new languages. I'll stay out of the way until
it settles.
tomas@tuxteam.de [2026-07-25 06:25:30] wrote:Definitely. Learning Lisp has made my C better. Learning diverse
Yes, but my question above: is it better?
Somehow this wave reminds me of the last wave of Rust brigading. It
tends to happen with new languages. I'll stay out of the way until
it settles.
I think programmers should learn more (and more diverse) languages, regardless what language they end up using when they write code.
Rust is very definitely among the top of the list of the languages thatHm. Javascript is somewhat interesting in that it kind of delivers
are worth learning for that reason (along with Prolog, Haskell, Scheme,
C, ...). Javascript and Python come *way* further down the list
(because they don't have very many noteworthy features not already
present in most other languages).
I have strong reservations w.r.t the Rust "ecosystem", but thatI feel exactly the same wrt. the first. As to the second... I
shouldn't be confused with the Rust language itself.
I feel exactly the same wrt. the first. As to the second... I
don't know. This affine types thing is neat, but for managed
languages (Common Lisp, I'm looking at you!) turns out to
solve a non-problem -- and don't tell me modern GCs are slow.
For very small embedded systems... but then I'd stick to C.
C is somewhat of a nightmare for huge monoliths with many cooks
stirring the soup (someone said Linux kernel?), so there the important
thing is to enforce compartmentalisation and clearly defined
interfaces at the boundaries, so more of an architecture thing.
As we know from Darwin, things evolve.
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.
maybe, however something good it should be real otherwise packages like "sudo-rs" they wouldn't be made.
CGS (HE12026-07-25):
As we know from Darwin, things evolve.
Living things evolve. Rust is engineered.
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