Why Rust? (for the Go crowd): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6830443 (apologies for the HN link)
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@bascule e.g. trying to read an int from 0x4 http://play.golang.org/p/pp0QemJrwx -
@raggi I stand corrected. But this is nowhere near as "built-in" as unsafe support is in Rust -
@bascule maybe you like being exploited for such things :-P -
@raggi on the contrary, I think Rust makes the unsafe stuff easy to do where necessary and only where necessary -
@bascule writing an mmap in go wasn't hard at all, so before you discount things with a cursory misunderstanding of docs, try it -
@raggi can you show me OS-free bare metal go on a microcontroller? ;) -
@bascule did you check the mailinglist? -
@raggi no, but here's a UEFI bootloader written in Rust: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTUyMDE …
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