Re: 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C,? according to Greg Kroah-Hartman
At Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:39:50 -0400 noloader@gmail.com wrote:
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> 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C,
> according to Greg Kroah-Hartman ,
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-rust/>.
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> And in contrast, Rust is only stable on a handful of platforms:
> <https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html>. Most
> platforms are not guaranteed to build or work as expected by users.
And rust can be incredibly frustrating. I ported several C++
libraries/programs to rust. I eventually was successful, but it was a major
pain and required a lot of finagling to deal with the borrow checker,
including duplicating data structures (basicly create parallel classes -- one
read-only that could be "shared" and one mostly write-only that was not
"shared". The resulting code is "safe", but clunky in some ways. (Maybe I am
just not any good at programming in rust? Maybe the programs could be coded in
a completely different way?) And as for GUI programming -- at this point
forget it... There isn't really a GUI binding for rust that is really mature
enough to use, at least I could not find one that worked for me (actually I
have long since given up GUI programming in C or C++ -- I use Tcl/Tk for GUI
programming these days).
https://github.com/RobertPHeller?tab=repositories&q=&type=&language=rust&sort
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