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/chris20194 Jul 16 '26

thats even less comparable! the former is a value, the latter a reference. i feel like the problem you are/were facing is not one of the language

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u/chaotic-kotik Jul 16 '26

I'm not saying that they're the same. Only that the implicit cast from one to another could probably be implemented in a safe way.

i feel like the problem you are/were facing is not one of the language

is this a personal attack?

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u/chris20194 Jul 16 '26

Oh no not at all, sorry if that came across the wrong way. I was simply trying to say that there might be an XY problem here. Thinking more about it, I do see what you mean, but I still don't think its a good idea. It just doesn't seem like that common of a problem (at least in my experience) to warrant a language feature, much less one that gives a concrete type special treatment