Contributing to Linux can be extremely daunting. Refactoring can be as well. Rust makes both of those a LOT easier. If a project is written in Rust instead of C there will be many more potential contributors and flexibility.
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just_another_person@lemmy.world 10 months agoAnd …why?
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Adanisi@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
And Rust has a restrictive trademark policy which could theoretically cause problems.
Just, why, Mozilla?
leanleft@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
"In kernel development, debugging is very hard for several reasons:
All those issues are reasons for using a memory-safe language, to avoid them as much as possible.
Overall, the use of Rust in the kernel allowed for the implementation of a lot of safeguards. And I believe that it is, to this day, the best decision I have made for this project.