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