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whydid 69 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for a...

I can imagine a possible future of 100% Rust takeover of the kernel.

preisschild 69 days ago [–]

It doesn't even need to be 100% rust to gain most rust benefits.

Just by forcing new features to be written in rust, it will decrease potential memory safety related bugs / vulnerabilities drastically

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s...

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