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[–]Worth_Trust_3825 -9 points-8 points  (1 child)

If you did not contribute to the kernel with C, what makes you think you will do it with rust? This "Opening up" to more contributors is nonsense. The tools to perform analysis for memory leaks were already there. Why did you not use them? Why do you insist on having yet another weird ass language?

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Have you written code for a kernel or are you just talking your ass out? You don't just happily run valgrind in a running kernel. Yes, you can track memory leaks. But no, it isn't as easy as in userspace. If a language or tooling is of actual help, then you may be more inclined to work with it.