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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 13 points 4 months ago (31 children)

What's the point of rewriting parts of the kernel in unsafe rust?

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 82 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Because Rust lets you choose when something is unsafe vs writing all unsafe in code all the time:

Note the other 159 kernel CVEs issued today for fixes in the C portion of the codebase

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if this can be adjusted for LoC count in each language

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if that's a fair metric yet.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not, I have no better idea

[–] nsfw936421@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 4 months ago

Maybe only counting new/edited LoC in that language. But also probably not completely fair.

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