The 1970s called
The 1970s called
Posted Oct 14, 2013 22:59 UTC (Mon) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)In reply to: The 1970s called by rdc
Parent article: Two LSS talks
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.