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Linux 6.14 With Rust: "We Are Almost At The 'Write A Real Driver In Rust' Stage Now" (www.phoronix.com)

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What is wrong with the commenters on Phoronix? There seem to be a bunch of old dudes who can't accept that C is unsafe and no amount of "skill" will prevent it from being unsafe. They look at 3 decades of unsafe C with thousands of CVEs and still think it's a skill issue.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[-] _____@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago

I love C and C++ and I talk to someone else who does (comp sci grad) but he's hugely biased against rust and says shit like "rust is cringe it has training wheels, just be good at C"

it's like a weird tech anti-intellectualism

[-] Piatro@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

It's just elitism. They think because they've suffered to learn C and have learned all the footguns of the language that they are smarter than people who haven't, so they see anything higher level than C as being a baby language for babies. 30 years ago I'm sure there was the equivalent of people who exclusively worked in assembly who thought the same about C programmers.