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Indeed - I can understand that some languages like JavaScript don't care, thats fine.

But the entire value proposition of Rust is reliability and predictability. Use this in critical applocations. And this is the first time this language is being used in a major Os.

The fact that these changes weren't accepted is not a good sign.



As mentioned elsewhere, a different design is being pursued. In addition, lots of similar changes have already landed as part of the Rust-in-Linux work, which has many of the same needs.

In addition, Rust doesn't require you to use allocation, ever. It was originally expected that users who can't handle allocation failures would eschew libstd in favor of libcore (a subset of libstd with all the allocating parts removed).


> And this is the first time this language is being used in a major Os.

Sorry to be pedantic, but that's not really the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_for_Linux




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