• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Right? It’s in the kernel and everything now. Linus likes it. Linus hates everything. HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING HIM?

      • Anna@lemmy.ml
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        19 days ago

        I’m pretty sure Linus dissed on RUST, but then again he disses on everything and everyone.

      • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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        22 days ago

        Did he actually say that he likes it? My impression was that it’s not his comfort zone, but he recognizes that for the vast majority of young programmers, C is not their comfort zone. And so, if they don’t hop on this Rust train, the Linux kernel is going to look like a COBOL project in a not too distant future. It does not happen very often that a programming language capable of implementing kernels gains wide-spread adoption.

      • m_f@midwest.social
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        22 days ago

        C is definitely still king, but I wonder if crABI will eventually be able to dethrone it:

        https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/111423

        If they can define a useful ABI that manages to include lifetimes, that might just be enough of an improvement to get people to switch over from assuming the C ABI everywhere.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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      22 days ago

      I’ll never touch Rust.

      I hate the syntax and cargo too much for that. If that means that I’ll never write mission critical, low level code, so be it.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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      22 days ago

      Here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re going to do the equivalent of x11 application network transparency but with wayland.

      Kind of like streaming a desktop with sunshine, but on an app by app basis.

      Also we’re gonna make a client that work for it on android, windows and in a browser.

      Then I’m going to fuck you in the ass