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by mlindner 1356 days ago
> Given that many Rust's security guarantees can't hold in the kernel, what is its advantage over Ada, Nim or Zig?

Rust's security guarantees can hold in Rust code that's written for the kernel though. I'm not sure where you got the idea that they can't hold.

Nim has a GC, so that's completely out from being used in the kernel and Zig doesn't offer any security benefits that aren't just slow runtime checks.