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One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"
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RUST ppl feel like ARCH ppl. yes it might be better than some other setup yadda yadda, but they are so enervating.i'd rather switch back to windows11 than read another post/blog on how som crustians replaced this or that c library. just shut up already.
The sad thing is, there are other languages better at replacing C/C++ due to closer resemblance, except they're rarely used due to lack of trendy technology that is being hyped in Rust. D lost a lot of ground due to its maintainers didn't make it an "immutable by default" language at the time when functional programming paradigm was the next big thing in programming (which D can still do, as long as you're not too fussy about using
consteverywhere).It was never about replacing C with a new language for the sake of novelty, it was about solving the large majority of security vulnerabilities that are inherent in memory-unsafe languages.
If Rust were to implode tomorrow, some other memory-safe language would come along and become equally annoying to developers who think they're the first and only person to suggest just checking the code really hard for memory issues before merge.
if you were right they'd replace it with Java.
Rust's memory safety is at compile-time. Java relies on a virtual machine and garbage collector. Nothing wrong with that approach but there's a reason Rust is used in kernels and Java is used in userspace apps.
Java was invented 20 years sooner.
Arch people tell you "I use arch BTW"
Rust people make PRs rewriting your code in rust.
Rust people are worse.