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Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers

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361 points sbt567 | 1 comments | 22 Jun 25 10:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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fracus ◴[25 Jun 25 23:06 UTC] No.44382626[source]▶
I wish this was done in C so I didn't have to learn Rust. But maybe it is time to learn Rust.
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1. jeroenhd ◴[26 Jun 25 07:44 UTC] No.44385145[source]▶
This is using rusb, a Rust wrapper around libusb. libusb is still written in plain old C: https://libusb.info/

If you don't want to learn a different programming language, you can take the exact same approach in any language you prefer and play along. You may need to turn the more object oriented calls into libusb_* calls, but if you're used to programming in C you probably won't have a problem getting that to work.