Speculative: Rust for base system components

[Eric McCorkle]

On 1/3/19 11:22 AM, Enji Cooper wrote:

> Going back to my previous statement, I think writing a service monitor (to work alongside init and rc) in modern C++/rust would be a good item to undertake.
> 
> I’d be willing to do this with someone else, as a research project/to demo how rust could be used.
> 
> Given prior comments about rust binary sizes and the fact that the default linking option is mostly static, a “mission critical binary” like this (or rescue?) would be a good candidate for rust.
> 

Circling back a bit late (I'm swamped right now) to make one final
follow-up...

I think it would be a useful exercise to try and get a minimal
rust-based UEFI boot loader up and going.  When I have some more free
time (hopefully soon), I might take a swing at it.

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