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'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 9 points 3 hours ago

This is what most people who complain about Rust rewrites don't get. It's not just about memory safety and some new language features. Rust simply did a lot of things right and is nice to work with. New developers actually join Rust projects while old tools written in C struggle to survive.