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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?
In general, for me, Rust > C > C++.
I’ve heard people say that C is like a loaded and cocked revolver, and if you’re not careful, you could blow your foot off, whereas C++ is like a loaded and cocked sawed-off shotgun, and if you’re not careful, you could blow your leg off.
C++ is a semi automatic shotgun with 200 barrels pointing in all directions.
Whilst it’s gotten a lot better in the -17 and -20 iterations, the fact that there was recently a doorstop book published solely on the subject of C++ initialisation semantics is pretty telling.
I really like what Herb Sutter’s doing around cppfront; I still wouldn’t use C++ unless I absolutely had to.