linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/13] [RFC] Rust support

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Message-ID: <20210427111345.n4vey3zfpk6n7mwx@FVFF77RQQ05N>
Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 12:13:45 +0100
From:   Robin Randhawa <robin.randhawa@....com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        rust-for-linux <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, nd@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] [RFC] Rust support

Hi Linus.

Thanks for your detailed inputs. I will defer to Wedson to address your
points but I had one suggestion.

On 27.04.2021 12:54, Linus Walleij wrote:

[...]

>To me, the Rust book is nowhere near "The C
>Programming Language" in quality (meaning readability
>and ability to transfer complex detailed knowledge) and
>that is a serious problem.

Compared to the Rust Book - which aims to provide a relatively gentle
and comprehensive introduction to the language, I think the Rust
reference might be more suitable in order to understand the language
support for features like Traits:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/introduction.html

A lot of folks, myself included, convolve the Book with the Reference to
get a stronger handle on concepts.

This is subjective of course but I felt it worth sharing.

Robin