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

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364 points Klasiaster | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 12:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.291s | source

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exabrial ◴[16 Oct 24 00:05 UTC] No.41854339[source]▶

I think this looks incredible. Like how does one create a compatible abi _for all of linux_??? Wow!

> utilize the more productive Rust programming language

Nitpick: it’s 2024 and these ‘more productive’ comparisons are silly, completely unscientific, And a bit of a red flag for your project: The most productive language for a developer is the one they understand what is happening one layer below the level of abstraction they are working with. Unless you’re comparing something rating Ruby vs RiscV assembly, it’s just hocus-pocus.

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ozgrakkurt ◴[16 Oct 24 00:19 UTC] No.41854435[source]▶

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Everyone says what they are used to is better or more productive. Even in assembly vs ruby, some stuff are much easier in assembly and maybe impossible in ruby afaik

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1. exabrial ◴[16 Oct 24 00:41 UTC] No.41854559[source]▶

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I’m aging myself, but ~17 years ago I was in San Diego for a conference. There was a table level competition to see who could write the fastest program in 20 minutes (we were doing a full text search of a ‘giant’ 5g file). One of the guys at the table wrote some SPARC assembly to optimize character matching that was a hotspot like he was speaking French.

Ah good times.

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