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'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

so it was! cool!

i will admit i'm not very well versed in rust, the only time i've used it was in like 2016, in an embedded context where there were hard restrictions on what could be used. no crates, no macros, no traits, no threading, and a very limited number of functions. procedural style, basically. someone else chose the wrong language and i just had to work within the system.

if the language is stable, i'm assuming the instability issues come from external crates? or are they just made up?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I havent noticed any problems with instability, at least for web server development it is stable enough. But it may be different in other contexts like embedded. And its true that many libraries still have 0.x versions.