Greg Kroah-Hartman… urged fellow contributors to embrace those interested in contributing Rust code to improve the kernel.

"Adding another language really shouldn’t be a problem… embrace the people offering to join us

Thoughts on this?

  • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    it would require kernel developers to be savvy in both C and Rust

    From my experience knowing how both C and rust works makes you a better developer in both languages.

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      10 months ago

      Oh absolutely, but you could argue the same for learning lisp or mastering any functional programming language (list comprehensions, etc). It will improve your design patterns when you go back to an object oriented language with some elements of functional programming.