Re:Penguincrab: Unsafe Wrapper for Linux Kernel Library in Rust
by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday October 03, 2022 @09:49AM
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> I wonder if big companies will eventually rewrite their systems in those new languages. Will I live to see a Rust XNU/Linux/NT kernel?
I would be astonished to see any full rewrites; we're talking about things with millions of lines of code and decades of effort behind them. I could totally see incremental rewrites that start with a little Rust (or whatever) starting in one area and then eventually spreading one subsystem at a time (see: Linux offering the ability to write device drivers in Rust).
I would be astonished to see any full rewrites; we're talking about things with millions of lines of code and decades of effort behind them. I could totally see incremental rewrites that start with a little Rust (or whatever) starting in one area and then eventually spreading one subsystem at a time (see: Linux offering the ability to write device drivers in Rust).