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josefx on July 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux kernel in-tree Rust support

I think that was after others took over the UI development. The back end of that program also was still C as far as I remember from their presentation and the move was mostly motivated by the GTK community, the documentation and different priorities on cross platform support.

for_xyz on July 11, 2020 [–]

Yes, you're correct. Linus still works on C backend of the application and sometimes has to connect his parts with C++ code.

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