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Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer
2025-02-05 23:09

Some worry multi-lang codebase makes it harder to maintain open source uber-project, others disagree Developers trying to add Rust code to the Linux kernel continue to face opposition from kernel maintainers who believe using multiple languages is an unwelcome and risky complication.…


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