Thread 106372450

So who was right in the end?

https://youtu.be/WiPp9YEBV0Q?t=1508

Incredible how Rust can looks even uglier than C++.

god I wish Rust never makes it to kernel as required feature as a yocto user. it already takes en embarassing half hour to compile gcc toolchain, rust takes a fucking 5 hours and now you mix gcc and llvm in one project.

>*cracking baby voice*
>you are not going to force us to learn rust waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

>>106372450 (OP)
this is not about rust per say, but about "encoding a huge amount of semantics into the type system", which is not something specific to rust, or rust requires. it's something c can't do, so rust is first to make it a possibility in kernel land. and as tso said, the jury will still be out on whether that's a good idea for a while (2+ years).
the "think of the distro users" concern trolling got me chuckling. i missed that when the drama came out. the implication that (stable) distro packagers are promptly pushing sensitive mainline kernel fixes to users, and this process can't possibly be delayed for any amount of time, is quite hilarious.