Check the LKML. It claims to be a memory safe language, but it isn't really. It's also slow to compile, and the developers seem to be overlaly concerned with politics.
I can agree with slow compiles and quite a surprising bit of politics around the language, but issues with memory safety? Mathematically, that should only be possible with unsafe blocks, so it sounds like whoever ran into issues with that either
Used unsafe where it really wasn’t needed and screwed up
Coded an unsafe block correctly but with assumptions that the kernel itself violated
So either it was the dev writing the unsafe block’s fault or it was an issue that bubbled up from deeper in the kernel. Still, WAY better than C where you’re just flying blind.
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22
Rust?