I can't wait for all the fun new bugs introduced when subsystems are rewritten in Rust for the sake of it.
(OK, a bit sarky, but still, Rust isn't a magic bullet...)
(OK, a bit sarky, but still, Rust isn't a magic bullet...)
Of course it won't fix all those half-assed logical bugs, but it will put an end to memory and thread related bugs, of which there are many.
And the reality is that there are no absolute guarantees. Ever. The "Rust is safe" is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety. Never has been. Anybody who believes that should probably re-take their kindergarten year, and stop believing in the Easter bunny and Santa Claus.
Torvalds is merely stating the obvious and being a obnoxious dick-head at the same time.
So even the "rewrite it in Rust, badly" has a decent ring to it tbh (although I'm not arguing there should be a rush to so).