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

If you’re writing C and don’t track ownership of values, you’re in a world of hurt. Rust makes you do from day one what you could do in C but unless you have years of experience you think it isn’t necessary.

It was true until LLMs arrive. Feature compilers + IDEs can be integrated with LLMs to help programmers.

Rust was a great idea, before LLMs, but I don't see the motivation for Rust when LLMs can be the solution initial for C/C++ 'problems'.

On the contrary LLMs make using safe but constraining languages easier - you can just ask it how to do what you want in Rust, perhaps even by asking it to translate C-ish pseudocode.

Relying on LLMs to code for you in no way solves the safety problem of C/C++ and probably worsens it.

Okay, I think it is is more like Typescript. You hate it but one day you just write small JS program and convert it to Typescript to discover that static analysis alone had so many code paths revealed that would have resulted in uncaught errors and then you always feel very uncomfortable writing plain Javascript.

But what about tools like valgrind in context of C?

Valgrind is great, especially if you write extensive tests and you actually run them through it regularly. And even then, it does not prove the absence of any kind of bugs. Safe rust has strong guarantees.

You probably should run your rust programs through valgrind regardless. Rust is safer than C, but any unsafe code drops you to approximately C level of safety and any C FFI calls are obviously outside of rust's control or responsibility.