alt Hacker NewsRust in the kernel feels like a red herring. For fault tolerance and security, wouldn’t it be a superior solution to migrate Linux to a microkernel architecture? That way, drivers and various other components could be isolated in sandboxes.
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tgma • today at 7:41 AM
Just use MINIX, or GNU Hurd.
the_gipsy • today at 7:43 AM
Go ahead and do it!
TZubiri • today at 7:49 AM
You should develop a small experimental kernel with that architecture and publish it on a mailing list.
I am not a system programmer but, from my understanding, Torvalds has expressed strong opinions about microkernels over a long period of time. The concept looks cleaner on paper but the complexity simply outweighs all the potential benefits. The debate, from what I have followed, expressed similar themes as monolithic vs microservices in the wider software development arena.