alt Hacker NewsIsn’t rust proffered up as a systems language? One that begged to be accepted into the Linux kernel?
Don’t device drivers live in the Linux kernel tree?
So, unsafe code is generally approved in device driver code?
Why not just use C at that point?
Isn’t rust proffered up as a systems language? One that begged to be accepted into the Linux kernel?
Don’t device drivers live in the Linux kernel tree?
So, unsafe code is generally approved in device driver code?
Why not just use C at that point?
I am quite certain that someone who has been on HN as long as you have is capable of understanding the difference between 0% compiler-enforced memory safety in a language with very weak type safety guarantees and 95%+ of code regions even in the worst case of low-level driver code that performs DMA with strong type safety guarantees.