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Banana699 on Feb 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C

Apparently Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, IBM and all companies slowly moving their system infrastructure to Rust don't know enough C.

>Unless you're being wildly negligent and reckless with your programming, C is really not that scary

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/970

warmwaffles on Feb 25, 2022 [–]

> Apparently Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, IBM and all companies slowly moving their system infrastructure to Rust don't know enough C.

They are moving that direction because of the safety promise that Rust offers and it is a "hot" language with a bunch of momentum behind it.

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