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CISA Warns of Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks to Deploy Ransomware
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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2025
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And that kids, is why we are pushing for Rust in the Kernel
But... You dont understand, Rust is the devil! If Rust were made the kernel's main language it would terrible because that would mean change ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
But then the kernel wouldn't be free! Free as in 'use-after-free'!
(/s in case it wasn't obvious)
Magical pills do not exist. Better start pushing old fuckers incapable of learning out of the project (yeah, I don't like this kind of treatment of Rust just because it is not C either)
Old fuckers exist to protect young fuckers from throwing out the baby with the bath water.
I'm referring to the ageism implied in the statement, I don't care about C vs Rust any more than I care about vi vs emacs or KDE vs Gnome.
Old fuckers have experience, they have seen many next big things come and go, that's why they seem slow to adopt new stuff. Of course this annoys new fuckers a lot, as they want to play with their new shiny toys now.
Patience is a virtue, young grasshopper.
Ooh, so "get out with this Rust, I ain't gonna think about when writing my code" is protecting a baby now?
Okay, then why we need to use a language that has more in common with OCaml? What about using a better C instead?
no one uses d
It's never too late to start!
let me clarify: no employer uses d. I use d. I am a nobody
Such as?
https://dlang.org/
This language was there for a lot longer than Rust, and is not "OCaml, but with curly braces for scopes".
Yay! Pick an arbitrary solution to a problem just because it's different and shiny! The shine will fix it!