Just curious - when’s the last time you compiled the kernel yourself? Do you remember how long it took? And that was all just C, which - while not exactly fast - is at least an order of magnitude faster to compile than Rust.
I’m seriously concerned that if Linux rally slowly does become predominantly Rust, development will stop, because nobody without access to a server farm will be able compile it in any reasonable amount of time.
Rust would be better suited to a micro kernel, where the core is small and subsystems can be isolated and replaced at run time.
Edit: adding a more modern language isn’t a bad idea, IMHO, I just think it should be something like Zig, which has reasonable compile times and no runtime. Zig’s too young, but by the time it’s considered mature, Rust will either be entrenched, or such a disaster that it’ll be decades before kernel developers consider letting a new language in.
Yep. Sometimes that’s all it takes for progress to stop being hampered.
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Just curious - when’s the last time you compiled the kernel yourself? Do you remember how long it took? And that was all just C, which - while not exactly fast - is at least an order of magnitude faster to compile than Rust.
I’m seriously concerned that if Linux rally slowly does become predominantly Rust, development will stop, because nobody without access to a server farm will be able compile it in any reasonable amount of time.
Rust would be better suited to a micro kernel, where the core is small and subsystems can be isolated and replaced at run time.
Edit: adding a more modern language isn’t a bad idea, IMHO, I just think it should be something like Zig, which has reasonable compile times and no runtime. Zig’s too young, but by the time it’s considered mature, Rust will either be entrenched, or such a disaster that it’ll be decades before kernel developers consider letting a new language in.