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What's the point of rewriting parts of the kernel in unsafe rust?
Because Rust lets you choose when something is unsafe vs writing all unsafe in code all the time:
I wonder if this can be adjusted for LoC count in each language
Not sure if that's a fair metric yet.
It's not, I have no better idea
Maybe only counting new/edited LoC in that language. But also probably not completely fair.