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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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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

30 years ago I’m sure there was the equivalent of people who exclusively worked in assembly who thought the same about C programmers

Isn't it exactly the point Linus was making about Rust?