[stepik777]

Remind me, why are such critical system components as systemd are still being written in a memory unsafe language?

[jancsika]

I'd love to learn Rust by opportunistically implementing parts of the systemd API.

If any Rustafarians start such an effort, please make some noise about it.

[fl0wenol]

Because if it's good enough for OpenBSD, then it's good enough for us.

[adekok]

Because of the many years of development already put into them?

Re-writing things in a memory safe language takes a lot of time. And that's even if the language is stable and available cross-platform.

[flyovercow]

Systemd itself invalidated the many years of design put into Unix so yeah. Bsd doesn't have this problem because bsd didn't adopt systemd

[paulddraper]

Because all other languages have higher overhead or are less stable.

[fidget]

Yeah, we really should rewrite the kernel.

[digi_owl]

Err, that is not an excuse. That just leads to the question of why there is a second kernel metastasizing in userspace.

[drdaeman]

Was already done, many times. Device drivers is the issue it never took off.

[na85]

Because Poettering and his fanboys like it, and nobody's implemented anything sufficiently better to overcome the political sway of the freedesktop.org crowd.