Hacker News: gjajrichttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gjajricHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:55:02 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by gjajric in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>Swift does not seem suitable for OS development, at least not as much as C or C++.[0] Swift handles by default a lot of memory by using reference counting, as I understand it, which is not always suitable for OS development.

[0]: Rust, while no longer officially experimental in the Linux kernel, does not yet have major OSs written purely in it.

]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:02:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46215611gjajrichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46215611https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46215611<![CDATA[New comment by gjajric in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>I have heard different arguments, such as https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/unsafe-rust-vs-zig/ .

]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:56:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46215577gjajrichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46215577https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46215577<![CDATA[New comment by gjajric in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"]]>According to the strange data at https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular... , 44.6% have responded positively to that question regarding C++. But there may be some issues, for the question involves two check boxes, yet there is only one statistic.

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