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Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There are people in those comments who won't admit Rust is actually useful and have a place in the kernel. Replacing 11k lines of C with Rust isn't nothing.

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Phoronix forum posts should only ever be read as a source of entertainment. The only place where you may find even more ignorant Linux users is Lunduke's comment section. Some of these people genuinely believe that Rust is part of a "woke" conspiracy to weaken FOSS projects. I've read someone unironically call the timing of Rusts increasing popularity "suspicious" because it coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 6 points 4 days ago

The Rust-COVID conspiracy is deranged 😂 Wow. Maybe people just love a good conspiracy.

The use of MIT is problematic, IMO though. Big Tech loves the MIT license.