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Re:An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey by gfxgirl on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @02:44AM (#25274090)
Swift is far more like C# than Rust in terms of memory management. Sure it uses ARC but arguably that makes it not suitable for kernel level stuff.
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Re:An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey by olliej on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:27PM (#25284140)
xnu is refcounted, its also c++ which isn't swift friendly.

XNU also has ABI stability requirements which rules out rust.

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