Linux Rust Support
Rust support in the kernel is good news, but it&#x27;s just inexcusable that we&#x27;ve had to wait this long for a post-C language. Human beings cannot consistently write correct C --- not you, not me, not Linus Torvalds. Spending decades writing C when a safer language was available caused the industry needless pain.<p>C++ support could have been viable a decade ago had it not been for strong egos on LKML refusing to admit they were wrong. Rust support in Linux is at least partially a face-saving way of backtracking on C++ in the kernel.<p>Rust is great, but with the sole exception of Rust&#x27;s reified lifetime management, C++ is the better language.