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   Artemis (artemissian@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 00:44:30 JST Artemis

   “SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I’ve seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.” — Philip Greenspun

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 00:46:39 JST Janneke

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     @artemissian RUST, RUST, RUST.

     Must have Rust in the kernal too!

     And it's "functional" (kind of) and "memory safe" (sometimes, for simple code, kind of).

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     Tariq (rzeta0@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 04:28:57 JST Tariq

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     • Janneke

     @janneke @artemissian

     I wonder if there's an effort to create a unix-like kernel entirely in rust?

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 04:28:57 JST Janneke

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     • Tariq

     @rzeta0 @artemissian

     I'm sure the rusties are wasting otherwise valuable time rewriting the entire world, changing next to nothing fundamentally. We can only hope they learn something in the process.

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 04:59:34 JST Janneke

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     • Tariq

     @rzeta0 @artemissian rust is mainly same old, same old imperative coding style which we've known for decades to be a next to impossible paradigm to create reasonably bug free code with. No (sensible) garbage collection and its memory safety (unsafe {...})is a scam.

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     Tariq (rzeta0@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 04:59:35 JST Tariq

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     • Janneke

     @janneke @artemissian

     Im no expert but I'm led to believe rust is a significantly different paradigm but also massively hard work.

     Might as well use that enthusiasm and energy to design a new kind of kernel rather than Frankenstein the existing kernel which follows a 30 year old design...

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 05:01:34 JST Janneke

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     • Tariq

     @rzeta0 @artemissian also, Unix is at least 50 years old. 30y would be more like the Hurd, but I'm afraid the rusties aren't that advanced yet.