On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM Yury Norov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Up to you guys. But having in mind that C is the only language that > really works for system engineering, I would rather consider to stay > in line with it on semantic level. > > If your goal is to make rust adopted by system engineers, you may > want to make your language somewhat familiar to what people already > know.
I am not sure what you mean here, but just to clarify: our goal is to improve Linux with Rust, not to increase its adoption (even if obviously many of us would like that). And just in case, it is not "our" language either -- most of us do not come from upstream Rust. In general, we do try to make things as familiar as possible, but sometimes it doesn't make much sense, so we don't follow C blindly. For instance, C23 also got checked integer arithmetic macros, but that doesn't mean we should start using names like `ckd_add`, returning booleans and, worse, using macros for those. C23 also got `nullptr_t` -- similar story. Cheers, Miguel
