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Linus Torvalds: Speaks on the Rust vs C Linux Divide
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I don't want to watch a video about it.
I'd like to know it, but a couple of sentences wouldn't have hurt
Rust is harder to write but infinitely safer, and equivalent in speed.
It's harder to write because it forces you to be careful.
it's more "it forces you to make it burrow checker friendly".
A burrow checker is not the only mechanism to write safe code. All the mess of Rust is all because this is the strategy they adopted.
And this strategy, like everything in this world, has trade offs. It just happens that there are a lot, like, - a lot -, of trade offs, and those are insufferable when it comes to Rust...
Borrow* checker, btw
Gotta watch out for those rabbits messing with your kernel