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?

    • gedhrel@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Whilst it’s gotten a lot better in the -17 and -20 iterations, the fact that there was recently a doorstop book published solely on the subject of C++ initialisation semantics is pretty telling.

      I really like what Herb Sutter’s doing around cppfront; I still wouldn’t use C++ unless I absolutely had to.