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Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust?

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Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust?

Bryan Cantrill's QCon SF 2019 talk asking whether operating systems should be rewritten in Rust. He draws on his systems experience to discuss C, memory safety and Rust's fit for system software.

Cited in debates about Rust versus C as a thoughtful systems programmer's account of falling for Rust.

6 Hacker News mentions · 2019–2023

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