alt Hacker NewsLinus is supportive of Rust and uses LLMs.
The reasons to not have a full-Rust Linux kernel are over more important, real engineering things. (Platform support being the big one.)
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xedrac • yesterday at 11:15 PM
Since the Rust support in the kernel is not optional, it already has an impact on platform support, no? Or maybe they are using the gnu toolchain to avoid that?
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lioeters • yesterday at 10:59 PM
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> Platform support being the big one.
And between rustc_codegen_gcc, projects like https://github.com/FractalFir/crustc, the ongoing addition of backends to LLVM and Rust, and the eventual removal of obsolete targets as hardware goes away, that's less and less of a problem.