Rust for Linux Redux

• c2rust

  46 3,682 9.4 Rust

  Migrate C code to Rust

  

> you are limited by the language/compiler on what you can do

You can translate most C to Rust automatically (https://c2rust.com/) and there's nothing that I'm aware of that can't be done in Rust via unsafe and transmute. Do you have some specific cases in mind?

• linux

  981 170,551 10.0 C

  Linux kernel source tree

There's more that it helps with. For one example Rust's Enums and richer types allow fewer mistakes -vs- confusion where pointers and integers degrade to a common type. A random line: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/122fa8c588316aacafe7e...

> void crypto_aead_clear_flags(struct crypto_aead *tfm, u32 flags)

These are valid due to poor type usage, but make no sense:

    crypto_aead_clear_flags(..., PAGE_SIZE)

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• datatype99

  29 794 3.5 C

  Algebraic data types for C99

Compared to plain C, you have ADTs which help from day to day programming. You can bring them to C (https://github.com/Hirrolot/datatype99) but I don't know if the Linux guys would allow it.

• zCore

  2 1,675 0.0 Rust

  Zircon microkernel reimplemented in Rust.

  

• pip

  108 9,282 9.8 Python

  The Python package installer

  

>Python versions: no fixes for anything important, just more half-baked features nobody asked for.

Oh god, tell me about it! 'Hey guise I heard pattern matching in rust and Scala and Haskell is popular! Let's add it to python but with no compile time checks to make sure matches are exaustive!'

Some excellent and smart devs who I really do respect worked really hard to deliver a complete dog shit feature while pip languishes for almost a year with a broken version resolver [1]. It's so frustrating. :( :( :(

[1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/9187

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