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by Yoric
886 days ago
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I think that's mostly because there hasn't been any new mainstream language with the feature set and compilation model needed to port fundamental system components for a while. I remember lengthy debates about porting just about everything from C to C++ in the Linux world and even C++ was deemed unsuited for many reasons (with which I generally agree). It turns out that Rust is compelling enough that it makes sense to investigate porting lots of things to it. I don't think anybody knows for sure exactly for which projects Rust is better than C (or C++), but I know that Google has ported many fundamental C++ projects to Rust and they're happy enough that they're continuing this trend. |
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Fun fact, the kernel patchset to do this was recently resurrected https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3465e0c6-f5b2-4c42-95eb-2936148...
We'll see!