Rust kernel modules

>Don't forget to reimplement the data structures accessed by any of the inline functions. By the way, these also often change depending on the kernel configuration.
That's not a problem, any realistic project to integrate with the kernel infrastructure would use bindgen to automatically generate bindings for structure definitions and functions based on C source.

The trickiest part would be inline functions. And I think Rust is also missing a simple way to wrap unions.

> Really, the only sane way to do it would be to either use a C stub to wrap all calls to macros or inline functions, or to somehow autogenerate the Rust equivalent from the kernel C structures, inline functions, and macros.
It should be possible to eventually create something like Go's "import C" feature, that allows to automatically wrap C code in native bindings. Perhaps even preserving inline qualifiers by using Clang to compile C blocks within Rust code.

That's a sizable amount of work, but it's _possible_. And in extreme, Rust can be used just like pure "C" - simply slap 'unsafe' qualifier on your code and go mad with raw pointers.

From what I see, right now Rust is the only major language capable of replacing pure C/C++ even for the most low-level tasks.