Speculative: Rust for base system components

[Igor Mozolevsky]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 15:54, Eric McCorkle wrote:

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> I don't think that's a fair comparison at all.  Rust is a systems
> language built around zero-cost abstractions that is usable for
> developing real embedded code

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Brian's simple experiment [1] demonstrates that "zero-cost" is more of
an aspiration (and a very long term one, perhaps) than a hard fact ;-)

1. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2019-January/053837.html
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Igor M.