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I wonder why that is?
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Maybe, I think it would be possible to take a BSD or Linux (tech not a UNIX) and port the kernel space to Rust and user space to Go? Not all UNIXs are closed source.
Might as well write it from scratch without POSIX and all the lessons we've learned since then. I think rust opens the door to designing kernels that are small and tight with most of the OS stuff that was traditionally in kernel space moved into user space.
The research methodology in this blog post is fundamentally flawed. The author only counts how many people move from X to Y, but he doesn't count how many of them do not move at all. The whole diagonal of his (sample) transition matrix are actually missing values, but he treats them as zeroes. This greatly distorts the equilibrium distribution. As a result, he misinterprets each equilibrium probability as the "future…
This is literally in the title
>The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y"
The research methodology in this blog post is fundamentally flawed. The author only counts how many people move from X to Y, but he doesn't count how many of them do not move at all. The whole diagonal of his (sample) transition matrix are actually missing values, but he treats them as zeroes. This greatly distorts the equilibrium distribution. As a result, he misinterprets each equilibrium probability as the "future…
I wonder if the data could be normalized against usage statistics somehow. Maybe not perfectly effectively, but at least better than as-is, precisely because the number of people "switching" is so much smaller than the number using a given language.
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Then why do we see a major internet security bug that would be simply impossible in any other language every couple of months?
Because the vast amount of C code running the internet. That's all. Rewrite everything in and you'd see just as many security vulnerabilities.
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Really? Why can't the C bits be replaced with e.g. Rust?
Good Luck with your precious Rust to be compatible with your client's millions of lines of code. For larger, and legacy project, maintainability and continuity is the overwhelmingly top priority, being flashy is the least of their concern.
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C and say, rust or c++ can interface. You don't need to rewrite, just stop writing extra stuff in C, maybe when you do a really big refactor in C, port it. In the end, we can migrate away from C gradually. That makes me wonder, is there any chance in hell we get some RUST in the Linux source code?
The problem isn't technical rather political. If you want to fix UNIX security issues related to C, first you need to convince kernel developers across all UNIX variants to move away from C. Then even a fully modernized UNIX kernel needs to provide support to unsafe POSIX APIs.