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Re:Was Rust Worth It? by tremon on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:18PM (#38028709)
But you can write userspace drivers in any language, as long as that language has basic file I/O and mmap() support. There's nothing special about using Rust for userspace drivers.
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Re:Was Rust Worth It? by TylerE on Thursday October 26, 2023 @10:50PM (#38034137)
Isn't this false? Don't certain languages basically need, say, a libc that isn't nessesarily available in kernel space?
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