The 1970s called [LWN.net]

The 1970s called

Posted Oct 14, 2013 12:17 UTC (Mon) by rdc (guest, #87801)
In reply to: The 1970s called by HelloWorld
Parent article: Two LSS talks

>So you're essentially saying that the success of a kernel is determined solely by the programming language it's implemented in? Because otherwise your point doesn't make any sense at all.

No it't the exact arguement you make in the next paragraph, its too big to rewrite.

> I don't think Linus is right about that. Linux is "too big to fail" by now, it's not going to be replaced. The best that one could hope for is an incremental solution to the C problem by allowing, say, some new drivers for non-critical hardware to be written in another language, and then gradually expand from there.

The 1980s called they want there micro kernels back //tounge in check

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The 1970s called

Posted Oct 14, 2013 22:59 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

> No it't the exact arguement you make in the next paragraph

He wrote this:
> If you think that writing a kernel in a different language is the right thing to do, go write it, and if you are correct and it is superior, you will displace Linux
The only ambiguity here is what "it" refers to. It could be either the newly written kernel or the Rust programming language. However, with the phrase "if you are correct" he clearly refers to some statement I made earlier, and I never said anything about some hypothetical new kernel, so he must be talking about the Rust language. So I'm sorry, but what he was saying just rubbish; he probably meant something else but it's hard to tell...

> The 1980s called they want there micro kernels back
The whole point of using a memory-safe language like Rust in the kernel is *not* having to bother with a Microkernel architecture.