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So teaching c would be a bad idea? Your argumentation is pretty weak...to say it mildly.


Again, for historical reasons it's probably not a bad idea. But yes it would be a bad idea to teach students C and send them out into the world with the idea that writing C is how you're supposed to do it.


>But yes it would be a bad idea to teach students C and send them out into the world with the idea that writing C is how you're supposed to do it.

So your student have to tell Linus:

Sorry cant help you with your kernel that's not how you're supposed to do it, please learn Rust and rewrite your kernel RN! I don't know in what wannabe rainbow world you live.

BTW Students can think for themself, they honestly DONT believe you if you tell them unix or c nor rust are flawless, teaching something does not mean it's perfect but one way to do it.


Actually Linus is on the way to learn some Rust from those students....


Let's see how that experiment works out.


It is already working out on Android, regardless of what upstream does.

https://source.android.com/setup/build/rust/building-rust-mo...


Yes and? What do you want to say?


Exactly what I did, experiment works out.




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