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That works for functions. For datatypes that are used throughout the API, it does not work so well.
Wouldn't a data type with no safe method of construction satisfy that? You can only get one by calling an unsafe function & satisfying its constraints.
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In order to figure this out I took the list of platforms supported by Rust from https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.htm... and those supported by Linux from https://docs.kernel.org/arch/index.html , cleaned them up so they can be compared like for like and then put them into this python script: linux = { "alpha", "arc", "arm", "aarch64", "csky", "hexagon", "loongarch", "m68k", "microblaze", "mips…
Well, GCC 15 already ended support for the nios2 soft-core. The successor to it is Nios V which runs RISC-V. If users want us update the kernel, they'll also need to update their FPGA. Microblaze also is a soft-core, based on RISC-V, presumably it could support actual RISC-V if anyone cared. All others haven't received new hardware within the last 10 years, everybody using these will already be running an LTS kernel…
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Is there any evidence "Asahi Lina" is Hector?
There is. You can easily find by googling "hector martin" "asahi lina" and you will soon find a pile of obsessively archived evidence. My view, now that Hector has resigned from the LKML both as himself and as Lina, is there is no problem any more. If Hector wants to project a persona, or decide his identity is the persona, or maybe multiple personas, that is fine on social media. People do that. So long as he's not…
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Is there any evidence "Asahi Lina" is Hector?
Thank you for asking this. It was presented matter of fact and I would not have appreciated that it was something less than settled. The best I can find from googling was rumors and speculation (insert comment in reply with more rumors and speculation). I also don't necessarily think it means someone is a Bad Guy if true. I want people to be able to have anonymous alter egos online if that's what they want and they'r…
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I'm not on the Rust bandwagon, but statements like this make absolutely no sense. A lot of software was written in C and C++ because they were the only option for decades. If you couldn't afford garbage collection and needed direct control of the hardware there wasn't much of a choice. Had their been "safer" alternatives, it's possible those would have been used instead. It's only been in the last few years we've see…
As everybody knows not a single programming language was released between C++ and Rust.
If you could afford garbage collection you had plenty of options.
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I'm not on the Rust bandwagon, but statements like this make absolutely no sense. A lot of software was written in C and C++ because they were the only option for decades. If you couldn't afford garbage collection and needed direct control of the hardware there wasn't much of a choice. Had their been "safer" alternatives, it's possible those would have been used instead. It's only been in the last few years we've see…
One could rewrite curl with Perl 30 years ago. Or with Java, Golang, Python, you name it. Yet it stays written with C even today.
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It is interesting how many very experienced programmers have not yet learned your lesson, so you may be young but you are doing very well indeed. Kudos.
Hah I’m not that young - it’s a figure of speech!
I guess it's time to finally try FreeBSD.
Why? Are you allergic to running rust code? You know, you can’t actually tell when you execute a binary? I don’t like programming in Go, but nothing stops me running go programs on my computer. My computer doesn’t seem to care.
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That's a rather pessimistic take compared to what's actually happening. What you say should apply to the big players like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc the most, because they arguably have massive C codebases. Yet, they're also some of the most enthusiastic adopters and promoters of Rust. A lot of other adopters also have legacy C codebases. I'm not trying to hype up Rust or disparage C. I learned C first and then R…
Not trying to make a value judgement on Rust either, just brainstorming why Rust changeover might go slow per the question. FWIW I work in firmware with the heap turned off. I’ve worked on projects in both C and Rust, and agree Rust still adds useful checks (at the cost of compile times and binary sizes). It seems worth the trade off for most projects.