Re:Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
by crimper on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:33PM
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I am not arguing with your original point about the language. But Singularity is as closed code as it can get and has a bunch of crazy assumptions associated to it (must have .NET installed which rules out most architectures)
Can you explain what you like about it?
Compared to C, Rust avoids a whole category of memory related bugs
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Re:Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
by Someone1234 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:59PM
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Redox OS is "*NIX written in Rust." Singularity was a complete reimagining of OS architecture from the ground up. It isn't simply "the same ideas but now in Sing#/CLR!" it was an answer to "what if we designed a clean-sheet OS today?" There's a long paper on it here[0].
But keep in mind Singularity is still a toy OS. It has no use-case, and doesn't aim for real-world goals that would make it commercially successful. I just think that even as toy OS's go, it was one of the more interesting ones of recent times.
[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...