Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust

Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by wyldfire on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:46PM (#11491043)

It's just the kind of area Rust does really well in. From a certain point of view, Rust can produce executables that are pretty much "written in plain old C" in that they can provide linkage that works like C linkage, don't necessarily need heap/GC, don't necessarily need big std library presuming userspace context.

I'd wager you could do something similar with D (soon if not now), since its no-std support is catching up w/Rust's.

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Re:Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust by CyberShadow on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:59PM (#11491153)

I have a "framework" (really just a build tool and some examples) for bare-bones Win32 support for D[1]. I haven't tried writing kernel drivers with it though.

I used it to create a few Fallout 4 mods[2]. Avoiding the stdlib was not necessary there, but I didn't want the bloat. One interesting application of D's metaprogramming has been automatically recursively instrumenting the DirectX COM API just from the D interface definitions[3] (not IDLs).

  [1]: https://github.com/CyberShadow/SlimD
  [2]: https://github.com/CyberShadow/csfo4
  [3]: https://github.com/CyberShadow/csfo4/blob/master/dxlog/d3d11.d

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