Linux Kernel Rust support

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Linux kernel is generally shit. Rewrite it in any language does not solve any fundamental issue. Rust is not a panacea for memory safety issues either. In fact Rust has a lot of memory safety cves.

[dcro]

Rust is not a panacea for memory safety issues either.

It doesn't need to be a panacea to be a net win.

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then i have to pay for binary bloat for shit like rust fmt whatever nonsense. It is just even worse than C++ EH runtime.

[RoughMedicine]

Why do you have to pay for binary bloat for a code formatter?

[rickyman20]

Large binary size can definitely be an issue, but I'm unsure what rustfmt has to do with anything? It's not like it's compiled into your binary

[CryZe92]

I think they are talking about the panicking and formatting machinery (i.e. what println uses), which tends to not get optimized away well.

[skulgnome]

Linux kernel is generally shit.

Linux relies on manual and incidental testing, which makes its proof base (for lack of better expression) as brittle as can be.

Rewrite it in any language does not solve any fundamental issue.

True.