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Re:Minimal x86 Kernel Zig by pmarreck on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @01:10AM (#47057762)
what you’re experiencing is more or less why I am building some stuff in Zig instead of Rust
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Re:Minimal x86 Kernel Zig by simonask on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @04:30AM (#47059043)
Looking at the code, I'm not really sure what part of this would be more verbose in Rust. This kernel does close to nothing, not even page table setup.

Granted, the code writing to the VGA buffer will need to be in `unsafe` blocks, but yeah.

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