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Re:Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust? by PinkMilkshake on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @08:33PM (#18974870)
If the world was truly going to take the time/money/effort to rewrite the operating system from scratch and create a new standard core for the future of computing, there are much better options than Rust. Ada being just one of them.

It would be a real tragedy to do it all again, only to make a mistake on the very first decision, what language to use.

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Re:Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust? by erik_seaberg on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @08:47PM (#18974933)
How so? I don't remember Ada having any features preventing use-after-free or write-write conflicts.
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Re:Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust? by GolDDranks on Thursday January 24, 2019 @04:58AM (#18987330)
I'm not too sure about Ada. In five year's time the balance might be very much in favour of Rust, and Ada would look the wrong choice. That's how fast it's evolving.

ATS might be a very reasonable choice, actually.

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Re:Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust? by adamnemecek on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @09:42PM (#18975194)
Ada has no steam behind it right now.

Can I ask how much Rust experience do you have?

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