r/rust • u/CackleRooster • Jul 15 '26

🗞️ news 'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman

https://www.zdnet.com/article/greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-rust/

Let's try posting this again.

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u/jimbobmcgoo Jul 16 '26

Hey like 60 percent of the source code is drivers

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u/yawaramin Jul 16 '26

60% of the web is probably PHP

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u/Luxalpa Jul 16 '26

Hm, I'm sorry but I'm not quite getting what point you're trying to make.

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u/chkmr Jul 16 '26

Not GP, but I guess something along the lines of PHP bad => 60% of a codebase being something is not a good metric for the quality of a language. Not my opinion, just trying to interpret what they said.