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Product-market fit. Based on prior Oxide announcements, they've been clear the raising is in large part about building out manufacturing to meet customer demand. In venture capital…

It’s in the book. That’s the entire point of the book.

The section on how to do software assurance of unsafe code in Rust is excellent. A lot of prior guidance I've seen tends to stop at the level of running Miri, but (as the article s…

Did you read the article? The author makes exactly that point.

Wired should retract this homophobic article. It takes an issue of people in power abusing that power, and ties it to their sexuality, as if the men abuse their power because they’…

In situations like this I appreciate that Rust has a culture of semantic precision [1] and while this kind of API-clarification is painful in the short-term, I think it will be wor…

For the disjoint field issues raised, it’s not that the borrow checker can’t “reason across functions,” it’s that the field borrows are done through getter functions which themselv…

There's also the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), a long-running taxonomy of software weaknesses (meaning types of bugs). https://cwe.mitre.org/

The project maintainers had to both: 1) Decide to use the highly risky `pull_request_target` Actions trigger instead of the much safer `pull_request` trigger, 2) include in their A…

The repository maintainers are running actions for PRs with the `pull_request_target` trigger, which gives full access to target repository secrets with write permissions. It's ver…

There’s likely some amount of code which would not be rewritten into Rust but which would be rewritten into safe C++. Migrating to a whole new language is a much bigger lift than u…

Alternatively, Rust's cell types are proof that you usually don't need mutable aliasing, and you can have it at hand when you need it while reaping the benefits of stronger static …

Not everything will be rewritten in Rust. I've broken down the arguments for why this is, and why it's a good thing, elsewhere [1]. Google's recent analysis on their own experience…

The article makes the particularly good point that you generally can’t effectively add new inferences without constraining optionality in code somehow. Put another way, you can’t d…

It ought to be easier to get a blank slate of a small device with some compute power and a screen, like the Kindle here, without having to jailbreak something.

Nice to see they identified Rust as a common language across many of the categories they surveyed! They specifically call out tooling, even for other languages, being written in Ru…

Here’s an article [1] quoting Walgreens’ CFO who, on an earnings call in early 2023, offered that Walgreens had in prior quarters likely overblown the level of shrink they were exp…

Right. A huge part of the value proposition of enterprise kernels is the stability, which you pay a cost for in the form of backporting and maintenance. That’s the thing that makes…

Greg KH's comment about not letting yourself be limited today by the needs of commercial users of old kernels is a good one [1]. That would be a tail wagging the dog situation, whe…

Mickos is quoted: "The power of open source is not that we agree and get stuff done; it is that we disagree and get stuff done. That’s the true power when you have a governance mod…

I definitely agree on the mission alignment and strong ethical orientation of non-profit work being a big motivator. I've worked for MITRE, a non-profit that runs Federally Funded …

Very interested in exploring how this will compare to Diesel [1] and SeaORM [2], the other two options in this space today. Joshua Mo at Shuttle did a comparison between Diesel and…