Oh man, I just did a thesis on using a memory safe language like Rust for the kernel.
The consensus in research was that Rust is extremely promising for designing a next gen memory safe OS. Some data structures are troubling to implement (paging table, etc.) but the benefits are significant.
This is just a DE but if it's a sign of more things to come potentially over the next decade I am very excited.
Linux is always going to be fragmented, and other OS (ex. Android) are either already integrating some Rust or are strongly considering it (ex. Microsoft).
The consensus in research was that Rust is extremely promising for designing a next gen memory safe OS. Some data structures are troubling to implement (paging table, etc.) but the benefits are significant.
This is just a DE but if it's a sign of more things to come potentially over the next decade I am very excited.
Linux is always going to be fragmented, and other OS (ex. Android) are either already integrating some Rust or are strongly considering it (ex. Microsoft).