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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Rust in Linux lead retires rather than deal with more “nontechnical nonsense” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Gender neutral pronouns are pretty huge too. Sure you can do them in English without too many problems usually, just as it's also possible to code safely in C. It requires everyone to change their old habits, but it's much less of a change than is involved in adopting a whole new language.

Anyway, I do like Rust better personally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Don't thinknits possible by on write safe c code. Otherwise we would not have these issues time and time again. But yes its only the idiots begin don't know how to code. Projects are big and complicated itsneasy to make mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Gender neutral pronouns might be pretty huge too, but nobody's private data is getting hacked because of gendered pronoun use.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

I would still say that getting people to the point where they can write safe C code every time is harder than learning Rust, as it’s equivalent to being able to write rust code that compiles without any safety issues (compiler errors) every single time, which is very difficult to do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ok, that made your analogy make more sense to me. I can agree with that. Thanks.