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Xoogler here. This hits hard; right on the kidney. That is a huge problem at Google: "we're google; we know what you want and need better than you do." That and an unshakable confi…

We don't. When I'm there, I see it addressed as a communal responsibility. Not to be facetious, but the way it's done is a bit of a microcosm of Oxide itself: everyone just chips i…

Linux won in large part because it was in the right place, at the right time: freely available, and rapidly improving in functionality and utility, and it ran on hardware people ha…

The first attempt appears to try and transfer ownership of the allocated memory from the Vec to C, so my first question is, why not allocate the returned memory using libc::malloc?…

> If you've been doing C for five decades, it's a shame not to have noticed that it's totally fine to pass a NULL pointer to free(). Or that calling one's FFI function inside of an…

I'm not Bryan, obviously, but part of the answer here is that 100 servers running at 100% capacity is an absolute upper bound, but most of the time you're nowhere near that. Most o…

This is less of an issue for us at Oxide, since we control the hardware (and it is all modern hardware; just a relatively small subset of what exists out there). Part of Sun's issu…

Sorry, I thought my last message did give suggestions for things to compare?

Well, you're free to study both in detail and draw your own conclusions. But the UART driver in both is pretty uninteresting, and I suspect whatever conclusions one may draw from c…

> rxv6, at least its userland, still seems to be written in C, which (correct me if i’m wrong) must be creating a lot of pressure on the rust kernel along the lines of ‘unsafe’ and…

xv6 was originally written for 32-bit x86; the RISC-V port is a relatively recent development. See e.g. https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-public for some of the earlier history. rxv6…

Probably true. Porting rxv64 to RISC-V probably wouldn't be that big of a lift, honestly.

In a sense yes, but also no. Plan 9 was built with the observation that high-resolution, bitmapped graphics displays were ubiquitous, and there was little motivation to keep the da…

Yeah, it's really more just a shell at the moment.

So is sed.

PL/1 definitely predates C.