Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by maintainer (www.theregister.com)

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Perhaps not, but if you’re a kernel developer, I believe you are obliged to understand your build system and tooling. The fact of the languages aren’t all used at runtime seems immaterial.

That said, I am no kernel developer, so take it with a grain of salt.

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