Rust kernel modules

Posted May 19, 2015 23:22 UTC (Tue) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: Rust kernel modules by Cyberax
Parent article: Rust 1.0 released

> 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.

Yes! That's what makes me so interested in it. IMO, it sits between C and C++, and adds a few very interesting new features of its own (like the borrow checker). And it has a gradual series of "escape valves" in case it feels limiting: unsafe blocks, inline assembly (in a future version or in unstable nightly), and as a last resort near-seamless linking to C (and indirectly to C++).