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likeclockwork | 7 months ago

Is Rust the only programming language that is usable for this work?

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sarlalian|7 months ago

No, however it makes driver development easier and all the work to date is in rust, so changing languages would be exceedingly painful.

rollcat|7 months ago

So far nearly all of the kernel/driver code in the modern (~1990+?) history of osdev has been written in C/C++. However it appears that Rust can make you incredibly productive, at the very least in experimental/explorative development based solely on reverse engineering.

It's promising.