Time to make C the COBOL of this century
Time to make C the COBOL of this century
www.theregister.com Time to make C the COBOL of this century
Lions juggling chainsaws are fun to watch, but you wouldn't want them trimming your trees
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We’ve already seen a few crotchety old timers who don’t want to add rust to the Linux kernel.
At some point, a complete rewrite of the kernel in a memory safe language would be prudent. Unfortunately, the dinosaurs will have to go extinct before that can happen.
Literally no one is stopping you
Just those crotchety old timers who currently gatekeep the code base.
That doesn't prevent you from forking it.
The Linux kernel is a few hundred million lines of code, probably. It does need to slowly be moved into a memory safe language.
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