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Now taking bets on how long until we can point to one subsystem or module in the kernel that's written in Rust. I'm betting 3 more years.
by phendrenad2 4y ago
Now taking bets on how long until we can point to one subsystem or module in the kernel that's written in Rust. I'm betting 3 more years.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoHopefully not before they've sorted out the architecture support. It's fine to write drivers that only target one platform in a compiler that only targets that platform, but core systems need to be able to run on all the CPU architectures that Linux supports, which I understand is still a superset of the ones that rust supports.
- pjmlp 4y agoEnjoy the bluetooth stack, written in Rust, since Android 12. https://android.googlesource.com/platform//system/bt/+/83498aa554aea220fcff30b6310a0a7b4557969f/gd/rust https://android.googlesource.com/platform//system/bt/+/83498...
- phendrenad2 4y agoOh, nice. I wonder how much work it would be to get that working on desktop Linux.