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0 pointsMBCook1y ago0 comments

Prefer C? Or haven’t used Rust?

All the Rust kernel developers have to know C. Is that true of the bigger maintainers who are arguing against it?

It’s fine to prefer one over the other.

If you haven’t learned one and refuse to try it and your argument boils down to “it’s not what we’ve done and I don’t want to change” that’s not good technical decision making.

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lelanthran1y ago

> If you haven’t learned one and refuse to try it and your argument boils down to “it’s not what we’ve done and I don’t want to change” that’s not good technical decision making.

It sounds reasonable - you don't waltz into a large existing project $FOO and tell the existing maintainers "Here's our rules going forward - you shall learn $BAR!"

It's both rude and arrogant.

I have not seen any good arguments for why there should be an exception when $BAR == Linux and $FOO == Rust.

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