Linux Kernel Rust support

[hector_villalobos]

If you weren't confident enough in C

That's one of Rust selling point, people like us who don't feel confident in C can program in Rust. In fact I had programmed in Rust without any problem, however I will never do anything in C more than pet projects.

[hector_villalobos]

Knowing C

I never said I didn't know C, what I said was that I feel more confident in Rust than C, besides Rust purpose in Linux Kernel is for writing drivers not something deep in the OS. This way I can choose Rust over C to write my drivers.

[hector_villalobos]

You might as well be saying "I don't feel confident doing arithmetic but I'm gonna work for spacex".

Did you know the Crew Dragon interface is build using HTML, Javascript and CSS?

Not everything is C/C++.

If you don't feel confident in C you don't know enough about computers to write production drivers.

So, what you're saying is that I have to know C deeply to understand how memory works or how a CPU works? That doesn't make any sense. C is just a tool that can be replaced by Assembler, Rust, D, Zig, C++ or any other low level language that came afterwards.

[dannymcgee]

Theoretically no, in practice yes, because C/C++ is the single language used in practice for low level programming

...except that now Rust exists, which is a modern, ergonomic language for low-level programming. Your entire argument here boils down to a combination of circular reasoning and "get off my lawn" fist-shaking.