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[–] anyhow2503 24 points 3 weeks ago

C has not aged well, despite its popularity in many applications. I'm grateful for the incredible body of work that kernel developers have assembled over the decades, but there are some very useful aspects of rust that might help alleviate some of the hurdles that aspiring contributors face. This was not a push by rust evangelists, but an attempt to enable modernization efforts at least for new driver development. If it doesn't work out, that's fair enough but I'm grateful for the willingness - especially of Linus - to try something new.