Rust will save Linux from AI, says Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Now that doesn't mean Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman thinks Rust is magic.
  • Rust will save Linux from C’s inherent security weaknesses.
  • Linux, faced with a flood of AI-discovered security problems, could use the help.
  • Going forward, more and more Linux code will be written in Rust.
  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago
    • He described new C “guards” and scoped locks inspired by Rust

    In other words, the improved safety will sometimes come from Rust code, and sometimes from C code. The important point being that safer practices are becoming more common now that Rust has called attention to them.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      improved safety will ALWAYS come from rust code and SOMETIMES come from C code with AI help or these new magical unicorn C coders that have suddenly learned how to manage memory (etc etc) now that rust has appeared

      yeah right

    • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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      4 months ago

      now that Rust has called attention to them.

      More like now that Rust is embarrassing C.

      A common pattern. GCC’s error messages only got good once Clang embarrassed it.

      • jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        Isnt this the way of all technology?

        for N=1; N<∞; N++ {

Thing N is released. It's new and innovative, and addresses all the problems with Thing N-1. 

It gains popularity until it becomes defacto standard, in the process forcing Thing N-1 to adopt a lot of Thing N's new features.

After a while the developers reduce or stop the innovation because their product is #1 and has no real competition, until Thing N+1 is released.

}

        We’ve seen this with mobile phones, social networks, frontend frameworks, programming languages, cars, fridges, you name it