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In what way? Rust seems to be proving itself as a reliable mainstay in systems development

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust

The git repo has over 150,000 commits, 3,000 contributors, and 9 years of release history. The last 6 years of which have been post 1.0.

Also, Mozilla has been writing large parts of firefox in Rust since ~2017. There's some interesting writeups on hacks.mozilla, including this one on reducing CVEs with Rust

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/rewriting-a-browser-compon... https://research.mozilla.org/rust/




Sizes of repos have nothing to do with it. By that measure we should all leave C and convert kernel to C++.

I do embedded development on ARM Cortex-M3 and while it is possible to do this in Rust, I have experienced a bunch of issues with the toolchain and I have decided to stay on C until toolchain improves.

Don't get me wrong, I like Rust. Just don't allow liking something get in the way of practicality.


> By that measure we should all leave C and convert kernel to C++.

Microsoft actually did do that in the 90's.


No. Most of the kernel is in C. Some parts have been in very light c++ since the 2000s.


Vista changed that, as Visual C++ gained stable kernel support, it has been a couple of years now.




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