It is hard when you mix them in one codebase and need bindings and wrappers for interoperability. This always introduces additional work and maintenance burden. It's always a tradeoff and for most projects not worth the effort. Tech corporations that do this regularly have dedicated teams to deal with boilerplate bullshit and tooling issues, so that regular devs can just code with minimal friction. Rust-in-Linux community decided to take it upon themselves, but I'm not sure if they can keep it up for years and decades in the future.

Though gradually getting of C is still a good idea. Millions of lines of C code is a nightmare codebase.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 14 points 6 months ago

Yeah, even Linus said he wasn't 100% sure it was gonna succeed but how else do you know unless you try it.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago

It is hard, but what's the alternative? Does Linux want to be comically insecure forever?

I know Linus doesn't really care about security so it's kind of surprising that he is on board with Rust!

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