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Re:Rust is not a good C replacement by Thaxll on Monday March 25, 2019 @02:27PM (#19485245)
My point:

- Redox is built in Rust and had serious memory bugs triggered by userspace applications, people claim that we should build OS in Rust because it's "memory" safe, in reality it's much more complex than that

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Re:Rust is not a good C replacement by mmstick on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @12:09AM (#19489230)
It did not have serious memory bugs. All of the unsafe code in Redox, of which only a small fraction is unsafe, is neatly compartmentalized so that it's easy to audit.
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Re:Rust is not a good C replacement by Thaxll on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:43AM (#19492289)
It was a year ago: https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/issues/1136 https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/issues/681

And we're talking about a bunch of people randomly clicking / trying things, so imagine what's really inside Redox.

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