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I don't think programming for satelites / kernel is more demanding than modern frontend, for example the Linux kernel did not change that much in the last 15 ye
by Thaxll 6y ago
I don't think programming for satelites / kernel is more demanding than modern frontend, for example the Linux kernel did not change that much in the last 15 years, it's pretty much the same old C with the same tools.
On paper it looks cool and complicated, in reality it's not that hard. Lot of fields in CS don't move that much especially things based on C / asm, kernel, embeded ect ...
- wwright 6y agoThis doesn’t seem true to me. You can definitely work with the traditional kernel and C model, but we have eBPF, GPU computing, unikernels, C++20 and Rust… and I’m not a low-level guy, that’s just off the top of my head. Things do evolve.
- spenczar5 6y agoI’m lost. What does Rust have to do with the Linux kernel? I agree that most kernel programming isn’t computer-science hard, but its peopleware-hard: you need to maintain compatibility and get signoff and step very carefully forward because any change can affect so many disparate groupa.