Committing to Rust for Kernel Code

1. linux

   1 9 244 0.0 C

   Linux kernel source tree (by ClangBuiltLinux)

   

   > Torvalds answered that, while he used to find problems in the LLVM Clang compiler, now he's more likely to find problems with GCC instead; he now builds with Clang.

   https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues is our bug tracker for known issues (a few are tracked in llvm's issue tracker). Bug reporters and future kernel hackers wanted!

   As I mentioned on mastodon, there's lots of bugs still to be fixed everywhere, but even if we don't fix them, providing competition in the toolchain space has been worth it to users.

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3. linux

   2 30 2,478 0.0 C

   Linux kernel source tree (by AsahiLinux)

   

   > Is this mostly just a thing to get more young people interested in kernel development...allowing them to start out in less important areas and in a language they are passionate about?

   Not likely. At the moment you need to do extra work to get Rust working well. It's not exactly beginner friendly and doing work in the kernel, you'll need to dig into C anyway.

   > Or is this a serious proposal about the future of operating systems and other low level infrastructure code?

   Serious code already exists, so... Yes?

   > Do you just program everything in unsafe mode? What about runtimes?

   Why would you? You need that only when interfacing with something that can't hold the Rust compiler assumptions. See for example https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux/blob/gpu/rebase-6.4/driv...

   The few places that need direct access / unsafe are almost all single-line areas with an explanation.

4. serde

   3 198 9,522 9.1 Rust

   Serialization framework for Rust

   

5. static-clang

   4 1 39 6.0 Starlark

   Statically-linked clang distribution. Uses musl libc on Linux and only depends on libSystem on OSX

   

   https://github.com/dzbarsky/static-clang should let you build it in a reproducible way with a single command.

6. gcc

   5 89 9,740 10.0 C++

   

   GCC is also written in C++, and has had C++ deps since 2013:

   https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/gcc/c/c-parser...

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