[_game_of_life]

Oh man, I just did a thesis on using a memory safe language like Rust for the kernel.

The consensus in research was that Rust is extremely promising for designing a next gen memory safe OS. Some data structures are troubling to implement (paging table, etc.) but the benefits are significant.

This is just a DE but if it's a sign of more things to come potentially over the next decade I am very excited.

Linux is always going to be fragmented, and other OS (ex. Android) are either already integrating some Rust or are strongly considering it (ex. Microsoft).

[panick21_]

The lead engineer of System76 is the guy doing RedoxOS and lots of firmware in Rust as well.

I would not be surprised if this new DE will serve for both Linux and RedoxOS.

[_game_of_life]

Fork yeah, that's very exciting, thank you for the info.

I'm not a Rustacean but these memory related CVEs need to stop. Any small steps toward a memory safe(r) OS is good news to me!

[steveklabnik]

I too am quite exited about both this WM and general kernels in Rust. Exciting times.