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"I'm not aware of any other language that has concurrency constructs as elegant and easy to use as Rust's spawn, and I don't know of any language that comes clo
by 2pxl 13y ago
"I'm not aware of any other language that has concurrency constructs as elegant and easy to use as Rust's spawn, and I don't know of any language that comes close to the race-free safety guarantees provided by Rust."
I'd recommend having a look at Erlang, it allows you to start lightweight pseudo processes for concurrency and provides a robust data sharing model.
Not so sure about low level access, we used C for those parts in the OS course I took.
- thirsteh 13y ago> I don't know of any language that comes close to the race-free safety guarantees provided by Rust. STM in Haskell.
- jerf 13y agoErlang's a weird choice for an OS class. An Erlang program is run in a VM that aggressively hides from you the exact things you want exposed in an OS class. As a user, that's great, as a way of teaching OSes, it's not so great. Plus the VM simulates a machine that is quite unlike today's real machines from an OS perspective.
- rdtsc 13y agoGranted for an OS class they just seem to be writting a lot of web and network servers. Given their assignment list Go or Erlang would actually be a fit. I for example remember writing a kernel driver and learning about virtual memory and io schedulers. We wrote file servers in the "networking" class but hey, that was years ago and a different college, so maybe I am just old.
- tobiasu 13y agoImplementing Erlang on bare metal would be a good idea for an OS class, writing code in it, not so much.