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Rust in Linux Revisited

Ugh. Drew’s blogging about Rust again.

You would be astonished by how quickly you can make meaningful gains in this kind of environment; I think if the amount of effort being put into Rust-for-Linux were applied to a new Linux-compatible OS we could have something production ready for some use-cases within a few years. Novel OS design is hard: projects like Redox are working on this, but it will take along time to bear fruit and research operating systems often have to go back to the drawing board and make major revisions over and over again before something useful and robust emerges. A small and motivated group of contributors could take on the work of, say, building out io_uring compatibility and start finding wins fast – it’s a lot easier than designing io_uring from scratch.

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