Comment by ChuckMcM

That is pretty awesome! When I joined the Java effort in '92 (called Oak at the time) the group I was with was looking at writing a full OS in Java. The idea being that you could get to just the minimal set of things needed as "machine code" (aka native methods) you could reduce the attack surface of an embedded OS. (originally Java was targeted to run in things like TV's and other appliances). We were, of course, working in C rather than Rust for the native methods. The JVM in Rust though adds a solid level of memory safety to the entire process.