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Re:My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM by worldsavior on Friday April 25, 2025 @04:34AM (#43791500)
Very cool, but why choose an unsafe language when today there exists low-level memory-safe languages? We all know already that most of security bugs are memory related.

I get that this is an hobby project, but still why not deprecate unsafe languages where there are much better alternatives?

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Re:My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM by UnmappedStack on Friday April 25, 2025 @07:01PM (#43799293)
Mostly just because C is a lot simpler, and in kernel dev, simplicity is everything. I've used rust for other projects but I feel like in kernel dev I would much rather use a simple and readable language than a safe language.
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