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Because there are many people who oppose mandatory Rust integration. For various reasons, not just plain dislike of Rust itself. And, for example, there's a Lib
by IYasha 5y ago
Because there are many people who oppose mandatory Rust integration. For various reasons, not just plain dislike of Rust itself. And, for example, there's a Libre Kernel that is blob free and it has its users. There might be an audience for Rustless Kernel too.
- samhw 5y agoI think they meant "why?" as in "what reason do they have?", rather than "do there exist people who think that?". I don't really care what tool was used to generate my assembly, and the kind of Rust that will be written in a kernel context[0] will - I guarantee you - produce virtually identical assembly to C. [0] i.e. no standard library ('no_std'), no unwinding panics, no dynamically sized types, &c.