Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust

Re:Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust by laumars on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:44AM (#28999139)

> Rust with its safety guarantees has those benefits in a way no other language does.

Lol no. There’s plenty of languages that are equal to or even more safe than Rust. Many of which are also more mature than Rust too.

This meme of “Only Rust provides safety” really needs to die.

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Re:Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust by geon on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:28AM (#28999547)

I apologize if I was unclear. Obviously other languages have type safety. But a language like Haskell is not very suitable for writing a kernel. I believe Rust is the language that has the right feature set and momentum to even have any hope of being taken seriously for such a task.

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Re:Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust by laumars on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:26PM (#29003292)

Rust isn’t even the only mature systems language that offers memory safety.

In this thread people have thrown Haskell and Perl as examples of languages not suitable for writing a kernel and while they’re right it’s still a straw man argument because they’re exampling languages that nobody is advocating for kernel development.

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