- cross-posted to:
- linux@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- linux@programming.dev
- 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.
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- 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.
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
No worries, the amount of new slop code with hidden bugs is entering the ring to try to keep the balance and to ensure the overall security doesn’t improve by too much: https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-declares-massive-ai-fueled-code-surges-as-the-new-normal-for-linux/
Phoronix commentors are going to be fuming at this news. And C programmers who don’t want to learn Rust won’t like it much either.
The best thing is that people are 100% going to use AI to port stuff from C to Rust and fix vulenrabilities. There is so much people can be mad about, we might just see some kernel forks
