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No, bullying is


The quote from T'so in the article is hardly bullying. I found it telling that this was presented as evidence of hostility.

Predictably, the Rust people play the victims while they are the ones who are asking something from all other kernel developers.


"Trying to get everyone to switch over to the religion..."

Yeah I mean I don't see how you don't hear this person talking and not think they are disdainful and dismissive.

In other news, Redox continues to improve and an amazing pace. May the best kernel win.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redox_(operating_system)

> Ralloc – memory allocator

> RedoxFS (file system) – inspired by the ZFS file system

It doesn't seem necessary to write either one of these if you just want a Rust kernel.

For one thing, secure malloc replacements are not very useful because the main customer that needs them, web browsers, will ignore yours because it's "too slow" and continue using their own. (Also, unless you're testing on an MTE/CHERI system your assumptions about what makes one secure are probably incorrect.)


> if you just want a Rust kernel.

The point of this work isn't "just a kernel in Rust." The point is to help the millions/billions/zillions of Linux deployments get better. A different kernel is a different goal.


Google and a bunch of bounties worry about the security of malloc for their browser, some intern worries about the security of the enterprise server.


I'd recommend reusing the one in the browser then.




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