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Imagine the number of developer years required for even just parity…

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• djbusby 4y ago
  20 years, 1000+ devs. Just a guess.
• fbdab103 4y ago
  I think it is a Ship of Theseus situation. Once Rust becomes acceptable in the core kernel, module by module, it is going to spread. I am fully Team Rust for core infrastructure, but I am curious how many security blunders in the kernel are memory errors vs bad security architecture.
• sliken 4y ago
  Sort of. Is the Linux kernel huge and has an amazing number of man years in it .... certainly. If starting over from scratch could you ignore most architectures, drivers, etc and support current hardware ... also yes. A new OS could skip 32 bit mode, alpha, mips, itanium, loongarch, 68k, pa-risc, powerpc, s390, superH, sparc, parallel ports, serial ports, supporting zillions of PCI/PCIe cards that you can't buy any more, messing around with archaic 16 bit bootloaders, etc.