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Is Rust an officially sanctioned language at Google?
But we also don't get in the way of teams trying to experiment and see what will work for them. (otherwise, we'd never be able to know what languages to sanction)
The Fuchsia OS microkernel should be rewritten in Rust, too, especially if it's going to take another 5 years before we even see it in a commercial product. If Google wants to make a modern new OS that will help it avoid many of the existing security problems it needs to keep fixing with Android/Chrome OS right now, then it should do it right and avoid collecting a lot of "security debt" down the road because of unsa…
They should rewrite Go in Rust! That way we can avoid all this Go vs Rust discussions ;) Problem with your idea, is that low level kernel will use a lot of unsafe Rust, which will lose lot of benefits.
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You absolutely right! You can imagine what Google can do with his resources when even one programmer writes his own OS, file system, etc on Rust - https://github.com/redox-os/ !
What is the connection between Google and Redox? I didn’t understand you to be honest.
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Go confirmed for me what I suspected: which is that I hate hate hate the futures style of async programming. I'm on the lookout for channels and green-threads in Rust (so I can basically write borrow-checked Go-style code in Rust).
Channels are there but you have to use an API for them. Green threads were removed a few years ago, though there are implementations of co-routines, etc. as crates. Rust is getting an unstable form of async and await as macros/syntax extensions, and there are RFCs discussing adding them to the language in some form. This would still be a wrapper for futures, but a more ergonomic way of using them.
Is this a new component for Chrome OS? Would this be a replacement for a project like Crouton or is something like this already being leveraged by that project?
Isn't stuff like that exactly counteracting Rusts raison d'etre? > // This is safe; nothing else will use or hold onto the raw sock fd. > Ok(unsafe { net::UdpSocket::from_raw_fd(sock) }) https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm...
There is a somewhat expanded README that has yet to be reviewed and checked in here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/crosvm...
Is Rust an officially sanctioned language at Google?
Speaking as one of the folks in charge of languages: No But we also don't get in the way of teams trying to experiment and see what will work for them. (otherwise, we'd never be able to know what languages to sanction)
Is Rust an officially sanctioned language at Google?