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Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code
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Unsafe Rust may be similar to C, though even though there's wibbles like the borrow checker still running, you still get more guarantees about the code than with C. Safe Rust can, on occasion, look more like Haskell than C.
Are they both systems languages? Yes of course otherwise we wouldn't be talking about using them in the kernel. Makes no sense to extend the possible comparison candidates to include Prolog, arbitrarily making look C and Rust more similar by introducing a far-off comparison point.
It's really not. I'd much rather use C than unsafe Rust...
The best part about Rust is you can isolate your memory safety problems to the unsafe bits, whereas with C, you have to constantly deal with it.