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Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI

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235 points Klasiaster | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 12:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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akira2501 ◴[15 Oct 24 18:58 UTC] No.41851912[source]▶
I personally dislike rust, but I love kernels, and so I'll always check these projects out.

This is one of the nicer ones.

It looks pretty conservative in it's use of Rust's advanced features. The code looks pretty easy to read and follow. There's actually a decent amount of comments (for rust code).

Not bad!

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IshKebab ◴[15 Oct 24 20:32 UTC] No.41852794[source]▶
Rust code is usually well commented in my experience.
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iknowstuff ◴[15 Oct 24 23:45 UTC] No.41854248[source]▶
for the downvoters: it’s true, and it’s because of rustdoc and doctests. comments become publicly browsable documentation, and any code contained within is run as a part of the test suite.
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1. 1oooqooq ◴[15 Oct 24 23:52 UTC] No.41854277{3}[source]▶
think the downvotes are because of relevance. point was not using advanced rust features, not being documented
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2. forks ◴[16 Oct 24 00:00 UTC] No.41854310[source]▶
I don't see how the relevance is in question. GGGP said "There's actually a decent amount of comments (for rust code)." GGP seems to be responding to that parenthetical.