Changes to drm_sched to make it safe

Posted Sep 22, 2024 16:39 UTC (Sun) by Rudd-O (guest, #61155)
In reply to: Changes to drm_sched to make it safe by ras
Parent article: Whither the Apple AGX graphics driver?

> Perhaps the connection to Rust is it's borrow checker has made sloppy lifetime accounting an anathema to it's adherents.

I would wager this is exactly it, because that's exactly what has happened to my own brain.

Even now, when I must use something like Python, I follow the advice of a fascinating article (I'm not sure if it was echoed in this publication here) called Write Python Like It's Rust. That article has some solid advice of Rust patterns that you can use when you're writing a Python application, which definitely lead to improving the quality of your Python code.

Heck, just using types in Python, accompanied with a suitable IDE built-in type analyzer, has already helped me dodge hundreds of potential bugs.