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by bigcityslider 17 days ago
And it's not because he's cranky or something, he was holding out for something worthy to possibly use instead of C. Turned out to be Rust.
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> And it's not because he's cranky or something, he was holding out for something worthy to possibly use instead of C.

Good point.

> Turned out to be Rust.

He was evaluating C++ in the 90's, you make it sound like he recently decided to write Rust instead of C. The reality is that Rust is allowed in limited ways into _some parts_ of the kernel codebase. Rust got so much further than C++ ever did, that is true.