Linus Torvalds Speaks on the the divide between Rust and C Linux developers an the future Linux. Will things like fragmentation among the open source community hurt the Linux Kernel? We’ll listen to the Creator of Linux.

For the full key note, checkout: Keynote: Linus Torvalds in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel

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    22 hours ago

    it’s more “it forces you to make it burrow checker friendly”.

    A burrow checker is not the only mechanism to write safe code. All the mess of Rust is all because this is the strategy they adopted.

    And this strategy, like everything in this world, has trade offs. It just happens that there are a lot, like, - a lot -, of trade offs, and those are insufferable when it comes to Rust…