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paulddraperlast Thursday at 5:05 AM1 replyview on HN

Rust would prevent a number of bugs, as it can model state machine guarantees as well.

Rewriting it all in Rust is extremely expensive, so it won't be done (soon).


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wiz21clast Thursday at 7:59 AM

Expensive because of: 1/ a re-write is never easy 2/ rust is specifically tough (because it catches error and forces you to think about it for real, because it makes some contruct (linked list) really hard to implement) for kernel/close to kernel code ?

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