> the objective was not to rewrite the kernel’s 25 million lines of code in Rust, but rather to augment new developments with the more memory-safe language than the standard C normally used in Linux development.
I used to be a C++ Fan Boy. I just started learning rust last week and noticed how old c++ is. All the good practices are built into rust that you need to specifically write in C++.
Abseil is used extensively in Envoy Proxy. The project is a top level Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project however Google are one of the top contributors.
I doubt it. Google lives at head and breaks things. Industry likes stability in general I have code from 1996 that I still need to support on cpus that were current back then. Nobody has written a new compiler for those cpus so I am stuck with whatever the old compiler supports.
OT: wiineeth, your account is shadow banned. I looked through your history and can't really tell why, but you should email hn and ask them to lift the ban, since IMO you don't look like a bad member in a community.
