Greg Kroah-Hartman… urged fellow contributors to embrace those interested in contributing Rust code to improve the kernel.

"Adding another language really shouldn’t be a problem… embrace the people offering to join us

Thoughts on this?

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Just fork it, do a complete rewrite in Rust, and call it “Runix”

    More OS options is better for everyone.

    • RonnieB@lemmy.world
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      The one thing stopping large scale adoption of linux is definitely the lack of options.

    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
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      Theres heaps of stuff that is under-developed or mssing, but they prefer to rewrite working code in Rust, because ideology.

      We are witnessing the death of Linux here, no less, replacing a working kernal with an still undefined language that everyone will have forgotten in 5 years.