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0 pointsrollcat11mo ago0 comments

Yes, thanks to the heroic efforts of Alyssa Rosenzweig <https://rosenzweig.io/>, Asahi Lina <https://www.youtube.com/c/AsahiLina>, and others.

Unfortunately, a lot of this effort seems stalled by some of the Linux kernel developers' hostility towards Rust, which also prompted Hector Martin (marcan42) to leave the project.

Now at the current rate, Apple is still moving backwards faster than the FOSS community is moving forward. I actually miss macOS 10.5 on PowerPC.

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likeclockwork11mo ago· 2 in thread

Is Rust the only programming language that is usable for this work?

sarlalian11mo ago

No, however it makes driver development easier and all the work to date is in rust, so changing languages would be exceedingly painful.

rollcatOP11mo ago

So far nearly all of the kernel/driver code in the modern (~1990+?) history of osdev has been written in C/C++. However it appears that Rust can make you incredibly productive, at the very least in experimental/explorative development based solely on reverse engineering.

It's promising.

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