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More Rust Code Is Coming For Linux 6.14 Along With Hitting Another "Major Milestone"
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I can't have an impression good or bad about this news. I'm not sure if Rust is an interesting thing. I saw people saying good things about it and other talking hellish about the number of dependencies.
I don't program for a long time. Used to like coding in C quite a lot.
Rust libs for use in the kernel need an extra approval. But it turns out, whenever it's easier to just include a dependency doing what you need, instead of writing a bad version of it yourself, most people take a dependency.
Hey man, if you want to understand something you have to see it for yourself.
Don't just look at online forums and try to discern what's factual. You need your own experience.
Agree. I was just pointing that since I'm out of the scene I can't have an opinion.