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You can do that in C, too.

Now that's a conspiracy theory.

So you want to force C programmers to write Rust or GTFO.

Java was invented 20 years sooner.

Linux is a development ecosystem. If everyone agrees to switch to Rust it can switch to Rust with continuity. But they won't.

The downfall of movie, TV and music piracy was cheap streaming. The downfall of cheap streaming brought piracy back.

Movies

you won't get caught torrenting because you aren't torrenting, stupid

Wouldn't it still crash when the smart constructor was called?

The bindings cause maintainability issues. That's the problem.

Linus and GKH, if they merge something that breaks every time C programmers change a kernel API

The only compromise Rust programmers would accept is C programmers learn Rust so when they break Rust code they can fix it.