[HN Gopher] "...Rust in the kernel is dependent on *kernel* rules"
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       "...Rust in the kernel is dependent on *kernel* rules"
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2022-11-25 21:49 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | AnimalMuppet wrote:
       | Is this a rule that applies more generally than the kernel? "What
       | you're trying to do is more important than the language you're
       | trying to do it in", maybe?
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       | I'm not quite happy with the way I put that. If you have better
       | wording, feel free to chime in.
        
       | josephcsible wrote:
       | I disagree with "Not completing the operation at all, is _not_
       | really any better than getting the wrong answer. " Getting the
       | wrong answer can lead to security vulnerabilities and subtle but
       | pervasive data corruption.
        
       | Smaug123 wrote:
       | Previously discussed at
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33056077; to quote myself
       | from that discussion:
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       | > I think a much better email from the thread to link to would be
       | the earlier https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/19/840, where Linus
       | actually talks about some of the challenges of kernel programming
       | and how they differ from user-space programming.
        
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