alt Hacker NewsBut what about this statement that Linus wrote:
> That's been made clear pretty much from the very beginning, that nobody is forced to suddenly have to learn a new language, and that people who want to work purely on the C side can very much continue to do so.
If any C developer developed drivers in C previously for the DRM subsystem, they might in the future be forced to learn Rust.
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cwillu • today at 12:28 AM
Nothing is happening “suddenly”, and it remains true that “people who want to work purely on the C side can very much continue to do so”.
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You're confusing the audience here. That's directed at subsystem maintainers, not just 'anyone who wants to submit a patch'. If a subsystem doesn't want to deal with Rust code, they won't be forced to. But there's no restriction on the inverse.