From: spamtrap42@jacob21819.net   
      
   On 2026-02-03, c186282  wrote:   
   >...   
   >   
   >    Everybody thinks they have The Better Idea. Alas only   
   >    a tiny tiny few DO have that.   
   >   
   >    A kernel in Rust ? WHY ? Apparently "just because we can".   
   >    All the other developers are not going to suddenly learn   
   >    how to deal with it.   
   >   
   >    Linux soon reached a sort of "standard setup" ... and it   
   >    WORKS very well. NO reason to re-write everything in Rust   
   >    or COBOL or anything else. 99.99% of the world WON'T follow   
   >    you there - it all becomes just an 'academic exercise'.   
   >   
   >    "Rust" ... 'C' with an even more annoying syntax  :-)   
      
   And, if I remember correctly from when I studied it a few years   
   ago some rather odd rules about when/how pointers can be passed   
   around.  Sometimes, it takes a lot of gyrating to declare the   
   pointer in the right place to satisfy the "memory safety" rules.   
      
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   Robert Riches   
   spamtrap42@jacob21819.net   
   (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)   
      
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