Re: [PATCH 00/13] [RFC] Rust support

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 5:43 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2659.htm
>
> That's just not making any damn sense what so ever. That seems to be
> about sprinkling abort() all over the place, which is just total
> rubbish.

No, it is not about that. It is semantically a no-op: N2659 is not
about a safe subset of C -- it just triggered discussions about it in
the reflector.

The point is that we think it is important to improve C for the kernel
too. We are not working on bringing Rust to the kernel "just because
we want Rust", but because we believe it has a sizable amount of
advantages that outweigh the costs.

Cheers,
Miguel