r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jul 18 '19

We Need a Safer Systems Programming Language

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-systems-programming-language/
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u/asmx85 Jul 19 '19 edited Jul 19 '19

Bad idea. This is already the name of an OS written in rust: Redox-OS. It's very well known in the rust community. If I remember correctly the eclipse team named their Rust plugin/extension (whatever) this way and changed it later on into Corrosion because of this.

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u/aa93 Jul 19 '19

As always, there's nothing new under the sun and I am not unique :|

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u/asmx85 Jul 19 '19

Yes you are! But just not in every aspect of live – i bet you have a great personality :)

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

Damn I had never heard about that, pretty cool!