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He also said in that same email regarding Rust that:

> nobody is forced to suddenly have to learn a new language, and that people who want to work purely on the C side can very much continue to do so.

So any argument that Rust would ever fully replace C in such a way that C would go away and be banned in the kernel is NOT what Linus said.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/20/2066



That’s a reasonable position today, but what about in 20 years?


Do you know what technology will look like in 5 years? Or even 1 year?


cuz if you do you're about to make a lot of money gambling on or shorting AI...


All I know is that RUST will lose skill issue and C will win




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