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What is the rust communities obsession with suggesting (threatening?) rewrites of battle tested C programs that have been around for decades? Now a kernel for

• dbaupp 9y ago
  The article covers both of your points: > Rust is supposed to be an excellent systems programming language, having the ability to go extremely close to the bare metal, while offering a thick layer of security and expressiveness which C lacks of. And such an assumption has to be trialled! > Which Philipp Oppermann has already done by beginning to write a real OS in Rust and writing about it. But this is not a realistic trial: an OS starting from scratch has almost zero chance to end up being finished, not to mention being actually used on real machines. That is, a more accurate title might be "Proof of concept of incrementally rewriting the Linux kernel in Rust".
• nickpsecurity 9y ago
  I provoked some solid answers from team members on that in this thread: https://lobste.rs/s/ldnlos/have_you_considered_rewriting_it_rust https://lobste.rs/s/ldnlos/have_you_considered_rewriting_it_... Skade even dropped a HOWTO in one comment on replicating much of their community results in other projects. There's plenty of data from team members to look at there where I'll let the rest of you make decisions about it on your own.