Google's take on memory safety

[Martyn]

On Wednesday, 6 March 2024 at 21:34:27 UTC, matheus wrote:
> On Wednesday, 6 March 2024 at 19:13:26 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> ...
>
> I think you're being too harsh with Linus Torvalds, back in the 
> day I really think he was right regarding C vs C++ battle.
>
> A couple of years ago he even agreed with some Rust experiments 
> in the Kernel and pointed out some problems later too.
>
> He is a technical person, he usually point out flaws very 
> correctly.
>
> Matheus.

On top of this, Linus knows that he needs to accept the ever 
changing industry. He wont be a maintainer forever. He has to 
pass the torch at some point. Younger developers coming in are 
less likely "C experts" or have interest doing so when we have 
languages like Rust. I am sure this factors in (with other 
reasons) why the kernel needs to remain relevant for the new 
generation.

The number of C gurus will shrink in the next 20 years, which is 
likely to align with the transition in the Linux kernel to 
another language. Rust is likely to gain more responsibility in 
the kernel at this point, and unlikely to be any other language 
(in my opinion)

 From what I have seen, Linus seems pretty level headed towards 
Rust. I dont think he has any interest learning it. Behind the 
curtains he might hate the language as much as he does C++. It is 
moving with the times.