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   Jarkko Sakkinen (jarkko@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:05:36 JST Jarkko Sakkinen
   Firefox has been using Rust since 2017 and about fifth of its code that was previously in C/C++ has been written in Rust (see Oxidation sub-project).
   
   I'd expect slower cycle for Linux than Firefox. I think this would be likely truth for operating system with decades of legacy (e.g. BSD derivatives).
   
   This makes me think that making any conclusions after two years is simply not a pragmatic mindset.
   
   #rust #linux #kernel
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     Hilton Fernandes (hgfernan@noc.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:09:06 JST Hilton Fernandes

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     Hello, @jarkko !

     Good point.

     Could you please point to references for your interesting statement.

     I'm not acquainted with the Linux kernel development like you, and all references I could find gave me the impression that most of Rust development for the Linux kernel was restricted to drivers, not for the kernel itself.

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     Jarkko Sakkinen (jarkko@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:40:48 JST Jarkko Sakkinen

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     • Hilton Fernandes
     @hgfernan Openhub from Synopsys is super useful for doing this type of comparisons.
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     Hilton Fernandes (hgfernan@noc.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:40:48 JST Hilton Fernandes

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     Indeed, @jarkko !

     Openhub is great.

     Thanks for your references.

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     Jarkko Sakkinen (jarkko@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:40:49 JST Jarkko Sakkinen

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     • Hilton Fernandes
     @hgfernan So for example:
     
     https://openhub.net/p/firefox/analyses/latest/languages_summary
     
     Native ("non-XUL") code covers 49.1% so Rust's share is slightly better but I think I got it roughly correct ;-)
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     Hilton Fernandes (hgfernan@noc.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 00:42:04 JST Hilton Fernandes

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     But maybe you'll agree with me, @jarkko, that Rust adoption in Linux kernel is still very, very limited.

     Isn't it ?

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     Jarkko Sakkinen (jarkko@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 02:46:27 JST Jarkko Sakkinen

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     • Hilton Fernandes
     @hgfernan I'm not going to agree on anything since you are talking about stuff that can be plain observed. There is no topic to debate here.
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     Hilton Fernandes (hgfernan@noc.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 02:46:27 JST Hilton Fernandes

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     I'm sorry, @jarkko

     Please forgive my lack of knowledge about this topic.

     I will try to learn more about that.

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     Hilton Fernandes (hgfernan@noc.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 02:53:47 JST Hilton Fernandes

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     @jarkko I think that the page you indicated is
     https://openhub.net/p/linux/analyses/latest/languages_summary

     According to it, there are already ~7000 pages of Rust code in Linux.

     May I suppose that was achieved in a very short time ?