This author is very intelligent, well versed and wonderfully dry at the same time as being slightly amusing:
> For all of these references, I give a big "Thank You!!!" to my co-authors.
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> This pointer is now a "zombie pointer" that has come back from the dead, or that has at least come to have a more entertaining form of invalidity.
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> Furthermore, even given unanticipated universal acclamation of Rust within the Linux kernel community combined with equally unanticipated advances in C-to-Rust translation capabilities, a significant fraction of the existing tens of millions of lines of Linux-kernel C code will persist for some time to come.
and his parting words, not that he is negative or pessimistic about Rust but rather highlighting some unsolved challenges and their possible solutions:
> In short, choose wisely and be very careful what you wish for! ;-)
> For all of these references, I give a big "Thank You!!!" to my co-authors.
...
> This pointer is now a "zombie pointer" that has come back from the dead, or that has at least come to have a more entertaining form of invalidity.
...
> Furthermore, even given unanticipated universal acclamation of Rust within the Linux kernel community combined with equally unanticipated advances in C-to-Rust translation capabilities, a significant fraction of the existing tens of millions of lines of Linux-kernel C code will persist for some time to come.
and his parting words, not that he is negative or pessimistic about Rust but rather highlighting some unsolved challenges and their possible solutions:
> In short, choose wisely and be very careful what you wish for! ;-)
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