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by dogleash 1373 days ago
> Maybe it's better to acknowledge these problems before you start instead of beating your head?

What's unacknowledged? They're doing exploratory work. That often involves developing under known and expected limitations to understand the problem space and have something to test with when progress is made towards addressing limitations.

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The fact that writing unsafe rust code is harder than unsafe C due to more rules? The fact that Rust has little support of nostdlib which is what the kernel is using? There's also the fact that most of the time in drivers (in my limited experience) you almost always want unsafe things but I assumed noone would think or admit that one