Cancer?

Posted Jan 31, 2025 13:47 UTC (Fri) by dberlin (subscriber, #24694)
In reply to: Cancer? by LtWorf
Parent article: Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping

"The problem is that they will be forced to take on extra work in a language they don't know. "

You keep saying this and it's totally wrong.

The current state is that C maintainers are 100% free to ignore any and all breakages in rust they cause or that get caused. They do not have to learn it, build it, or care about it.

So they do not have to learn anything.

That may not be true some day, but it is true now, and has been very explicit.

Can we move on to some other argument?

Cancer?

Posted Jan 31, 2025 15:39 UTC (Fri) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link]

As we've seen in the past. That is not the case at all, and ignoring Rust is not an option they have for real.