rust in the linux kernel

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"There you go, now try to add your stupid bugs. See, you can't!".
There! Now try to make a doubly linked list
- unsafe time.
  
  I've poked around in the Rust linked list tutorial, and it all seems like hacks to me. At the end of the day I think you just need to use raw pointers when you're implementing list operations.
- its not super hard in rust
  
  It's harder than in most other languages
'Rewrite it in Rust' isn't a joke anymore
- Was it once a joke?
is... is that real?
- The picture itself is satire, but there already being rust in the kernel is reality.
  
  haha. it's something I could see Linus doing, tbh. So I wasn't sure. Thanks.
DAMN YOU LINUS YOUR MAKING MY LINUX INSTALL SLOWER
Bryan Lunduke on /c/programmerhumor? Not what I expected, but okay.
- Actually, Lunduke made the best meme I've ever seen.
  
  Finland is in an extended sense 'Scandinavian'; though I'm not sure that they consider themselves descended from 'the Vikings'.

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