dragonfly4933

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Comparing python to rust, rust has far fewer breaking updates than python, and thats a fact. Feature updates can and do break older code in python, whereas in rust this is simply not allowed with few exceptions.

The language is allowed to change in compatible ways with editions. Every few years a new edition is released which allows otherwise breaking changes to be implemented, but the old and new code can still work together. Developers can rev the edition version when they want. I also think cargo might be able to help upgrade to a new edition as well.

Rust isn’t perfect, but python fails to learn the lessons that even perl implemented decades ago.