Re: Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language

2023-01-07 Thread monkyyy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 03:58:43 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 03:18:27 UTC, monkyyy wrote: On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 02:15:27 UTC, areYouSureAboutThat wrote: C is not just a programming language anymore. It's a complete (and very diverse) ecosystem. No

Re: Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language

2023-01-07 Thread Siarhei Siamashka via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 03:18:27 UTC, monkyyy wrote: On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 02:15:27 UTC, areYouSureAboutThat wrote: C is not just a programming language anymore. It's a complete (and very diverse) ecosystem. No progress has been made for decades but that doesn't mean progress

Re: Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language

2023-01-07 Thread monkyyy via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 8 January 2023 at 02:15:27 UTC, areYouSureAboutThat wrote: C is not just a programming language anymore. It's a complete (and very diverse) ecosystem. No progress has been made for decades but that doesn't mean progress is impossible. Maybe the academia will take note that

Re: Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language

2023-01-07 Thread areYouSureAboutThat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 January 2023 at 23:27:02 UTC, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: There are attempts to rewrite it in safer programming languages ;-) Such as https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide I'd love to hear Lord Linus's thought on this. Let's see if the alternative implementations turn out to be

Re: Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language

2023-01-07 Thread Siarhei Siamashka via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 January 2023 at 22:25:30 UTC, areYouSureAboutThat wrote: Well, the worlds most widely used source code revision control system, is written in C ;-) There are attempts to rewrite it in safer programming languages ;-) Such as https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide Let's see if the

Re: Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language

2023-01-07 Thread areYouSureAboutThat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 6 January 2023 at 11:02:03 UTC, Tejas wrote: Those statements, even if spoken recently, are just a way of maintaining PR. Elon also similarly calls C++ a bloated mess and that all high performance code at Tesla is in C, as if that's something to be proud of... their ultra safety

Re: Safer Linux Kernel Modules Using the D Programming Language

2023-01-07 Thread Bastiaan Veelo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 January 2023 at 20:24:07 UTC, Alexandru Militaru wrote: Hi everyone, If you remember the "D for a @safer Linux Kernel“ talk from DConf 2019 [1], then you might want to read our paper [2] on that matter that was just published in IEEE Access Journal. [1]

Re: Good News: Almost all druntime supported on arsd webassembly

2023-01-07 Thread Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 6 January 2023 at 12:52:43 UTC, Hipreme wrote: Hello people. I have tried working again with adam's wasm minimal runtime, and yesterday I was able to make a great progress on it. Awesome! To think that custom druntime can get you out of platform situations is great risk