Nobody wants memory bugs. Penguinistas continue debate on how to squish 'em

Greg Kroah-Hartman… urged fellow contributors to embrace those interested in contributing Rust code to improve the kernel.

"Adding another language really shouldn’t be a problem… embrace the people offering to join us

Thoughts on this?

  • WalnutLum@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    13 hours ago

    it would require kernel developers to be savvy in both C and Rust

    From my experience knowing how both C and rust works makes you a better developer in both languages.

    • LedgeDrop@lemm.eeEnglish
      42·
      11 hours ago

      Oh absolutely, but you could argue the same for learning lisp or mastering any functional programming language (list comprehensions, etc). It will improve your design patterns when you go back to an object oriented language with some elements of functional programming.

      • WalnutLum@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Again from my experience, knowing lisp (yay guix and emacs) definitely helps me write more elegant code in every language.

        I also have to explain almost every single thing I write in code review.

      • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        8 hours ago

        Nah it’s a different axis. Rust doesn’t have a GC, you do need to think about memory, it’s just that the compiler generally enforces things for you. You learn to think like borrowck thinks because you don’t want to get yelled at. Going back to C then you suddenly mistrust a lot of code a lot more, and rightly so.