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At least Rust has Servo and is being used in Firefox- while not really operating systems you would write Rust applications on, it's closer than many dead/dying

by Rusky 11y ago

At least Rust has Servo and is being used in Firefox- while not really operating systems you would write Rust applications on, it's closer than many dead/dying systems languages have. Another interesting route would be kernel modules- Rust could be a good language to write drivers in, if you need the extra security. I don't think it necessarily needs a whole OS to itself just to survive.

pcwalton 11y ago
Not just kernel modules—even userspace modules that are security-critical and used by lots of projects are good candidates for Rust. Think image decoders, media codecs, audio libraries, GL stacks, database engines, crypto libraries, etc.