Mark Russinovich: “Working towards enabling Windows driver development in Rust”

1. windows-drivers-rs

   1 7 1,603 8.8 Rust

   Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust. Developed by Surface.

   

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

3. KernelSharp

   2 3 187 0.0 C#

   C# Kernel Mode Driver example using NativeAOT

   

   Here's an example [1] of a device driver in C#. It is possible. It is also not recommended.

   [1] https://github.com/VollRagm/KernelSharp

4. UIforETW

   3 19 1,611 5.5 C++

   User interface for recording and managing ETW traces

   

   You can use UI4ETW[0] to capture an event trace when the mouse freezes. You may need to install the Windows SDK or Visual Studio to interpret the results, though.

   [0] https://github.com/google/UIforETW

5. Rust-for-Linux

   4 84 4,147 0.0 C

   Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel. (by Rust-for-Linux)

   

   > How would this work?

   Don't know exactly what you're asking.

   > And why would it be a better idea?

   Poorly written device drivers are a significant attack vector. It's one of the reasons Linux is now exploring using Rust for its own device drivers.[0] You may be asking -- why Rust and not some other language? Rust has many of the performance and interoperability advantages of C and C++, but as noted, makes certain classes of memory safety issues impossible. Rust also has significant mindshare among systems programming communities.

   [0]: https://rust-for-linux.com

6. shared_memory

   5 2 402 0.0 Rust

   A Rust wrapper around native shared memory for Linux and Windows

   

   > Rust type system doesn't help when the data resides in a shared memory segment accessed by multiple processes.

   This isn't quite true. You can provide a safe abstraction that involves cross-process locking APIs. https://github.com/elast0ny/shared_memory/blob/HEAD/examples... is an example using a mutex guard.

   Rust's type system helps more in some cases than others but you can get at least some help from it almost all of the time.

7. Meadow.Foundation

   6 1 147 9.6 C#

   Unified driver and library framework for Meadow applications.

   

   Like this, for a possible example,

   https://github.com/WildernessLabs/Meadow.Foundation

8. Cosmos

   7 14 3,017 7.9 C#

   Cosmos is an operating system "construction kit". Build your own OS using managed languages such as C#, VB.NET, and more!

   

   I didn't realise that. Then again, I only experimented with AOT executables quite briefly. Perhaps Cosmos[1] stuck in my head more than what I read about AOT dotnet applications.

   [1]: https://github.com/CosmosOS/Cosmos

9. CodeRabbit

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