Greg Kroah-Hartman has been maintaining Linux for decades.
If he says that Rust is helping Linux maintainers to do their work more effectively, that is great news for Linux. I am excited to see the work advance.
I was skeptical of Rust until I gave the language a try for Advent of Code one year. I found it interesting, but I was uncertain about how it would work in a real codebase.
Later at $JOB, I migrated a troublesome C codebase to Rust as an experiment and the results were eye-opening. We discovered errors in the C code we had not realized were present. We were able to structure the code in a way that was easier to understand. The rewritten code was slightly faster, but much easier to understand and maintain.
If he says that Rust is helping Linux maintainers to do their work more effectively, that is great news for Linux. I am excited to see the work advance.
I was skeptical of Rust until I gave the language a try for Advent of Code one year. I found it interesting, but I was uncertain about how it would work in a real codebase.
Later at $JOB, I migrated a troublesome C codebase to Rust as an experiment and the results were eye-opening. We discovered errors in the C code we had not realized were present. We were able to structure the code in a way that was easier to understand. The rewritten code was slightly faster, but much easier to understand and maintain.
It really is a game changer.