Re: Reviewing Hurd-on-L4 (and considering its future?)

arnuld <[email protected]> Wed, 30 May 2018 12:43:15 +0530

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> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 2:32 PM, William ML Leslie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Rust is one option. But remember that the Hurd is not a kernel, it is
> user-space implementation of functionality that has typically lived in the
> kernel. For the sake of both security and ease of development, critical
> parts could be written in rust (or ATS, or Nim), and less critical parts in
> guile or so.

That is a brilliant idea William. Even I thought of either ATS or Rust
and using guile for rest.
It is more of like how Emacs was written. Lower parts in C and rest in
Emacs Lisp.




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