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19 November 2025

  • curprev 08:0908:09, 19 November 2025 PC talk contribs 8,565 bytes +8,565 Created page with "500px There’s a quiet revolution happening in the kernel space — and it’s written in Rust. For decades, device drivers have been the most crash-prone, security-sensitive, and soul-draining part of system software. A small mistake in a pointer dereference or a missing free() call could bring down an entire system. C and C++ gave us speed and control — but at a brutal cost: undefined behavior. Then came Rust — and suddenly, t..."
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