Hacker News: _fehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_feHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:54:15 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by _fe in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>In-general it seems that Rust proponents want ease and modernity to replace the ability to do the same in C better, with more control and intent, and with better results.

Rust is less tight. That’s fine for an application, but the kernel is used by everyone who uses Linux.

Rustians disparage C because it doesn’t have Rust behavior.

Why must the kernel have Rust behavior?

]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:21:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216920_fehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216920https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216920<![CDATA[New comment by _fe in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>> If rust didn’t provide value to the Linux kernel, there’s no way it would have made out of the experimental phase.

That’s “appeal to authority” fallacy.

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