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Rust hardly deals with memory race conditions better than C, and managed languages are not fit for kernel. This isn't the fault of C at all. These kinds of issues are unavoidable part of kernel programming in multiprocessor settings and not something you can solve with a different programming language.

This comment just can't be more wrong.



Rust deals with race conditions 100 times better than C. Have you tried it? Just because it can't guarantee that they never happen doesn't mean it isn't any better.

You can't solve this with a different programming language but you can definitely make bugs much less likely.




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