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20 November 2025

  • curprev 03:0703:07, 20 November 2025 PC talk contribs 7,859 bytes +7,859 Created page with " 500px There’s something poetic about writing a bootloader in Rust.
It’s like asking a poet to write machine code — in rhyme. A bootloader sits at the very edge of the known world — the first thing your CPU runs after power-on, before any OS, heap, or even std exists. It’s pure metal, pure chaos, and yet… Rust developers are somehow rewriting this primordial mess safely. But how?
How can a language obsessed with ownershi..."