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by nottorp 190 days ago
If you tell us $LANGUAGE is the second coming of $DEITY daily, in multiple ways, we will expect that it is the second coming.

What's even the point of introducing Rust into the Linux kernel when you have to use the hidden under the rug unsafe parts of it to function?

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All of C is unsafe. Tiny, limited parts of kernel Rust code are unsafe. The percentage of unsafe Rust code will almost certainly decrease over time.

This isn’t really hard to wrap your head around.

> The percentage of unsafe Rust code will almost certainly decrease over time.

Famous last words. /s