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Linux maintainers are unwilling to get rust into the kernel, so some rust folks decided to start writing a new kernel with same ABI. This allows them to make new architectural decisions. An example being their “frame kernel” (something between a monolithic kernel and a microkernel).

If I may say, it’s more legible and the tooling is way better, right off the bat.

  • Michael Murphy (S76)@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    All source code in Rust is statically-linked when compiled, which thereby renders the LGPL no different from the GPL in practice. For Rust, the MPL-2.0 is a better license because it does not have the linking restriction.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Huh, I didn’t know that. I thought dylibs could just be linked normally. Thanks for the insight.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Interesting. Is that because the kernel can’t load a a module as dylib (I don’t know a lot about kernel development) or because dylibs are also somehow statically linked in Rust?