last highlighted date: 2024-03-06
Highlights
- “UB is an inseparable part of C programming, […] this is a depressing and faintly terrifying thing. The tooling built around the C family of languages helps make the situation less bad, but it is still pretty bad. The only solution is to move to new programming languages that don’t inherit the problem of C.”
- Note: good point to c
- ● Servo - Mozilla (and Samsung) rendering engine (used since Firefox v57) ● Magic Pocket – Dropbox’s file system ● Redox – a Unix-like microkernel operating system ● Tock OS - embedded OS for IoT devices ● Tor – security parts ported from C to Rust ● Nebulet – Experimental WebAssembly kernel ● Rust compiler - frontend is in Rust, backend is LLVM ● Cargo build and package manager - written in safe Rust completely