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I'd be shocked if something written in C that's as complex as the Linux kernel didn't have race conditions.

The language a program is written in has no bearing on whether or not the program is susceptible to race conditions. You can have data races in Python, Javascript and Rust as easily as you can in C.

You cannot have data races in safe Rust.

Race conditions aren't necessarily data races. This article and the parent comment was about race conditions in general.

The parent comment literally says

> You can have data races in Python, Javascript and Rust as easily as you can in C.

Don't use "race conditions" and "data races" interchangeably if you understand the difference...

That's a false equivalence. Some languages make it much easier to create race conditions than others. For example, you have to work hard to avoid them in C, but you'd have to actually try to introduce them in Clojure.

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