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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:03:24 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "barney_cordoba@yahoo.com" <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>, Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>, Antranig Vartanian <antranigv@freebsd.am>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Goran_Meki=C4=87?= <meka@tilda.center>
Subject:   Re: The Case for Rust (in the base system)
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In-Reply-To: <867128400.2198.1708716158027@mail.yahoo.com>
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barney_cordoba@yahoo.com writes:

> You should be working on streamlining the OS [...]

Without endorsing your crusade in any way, I want to point out that
there is a very interesting series of articles on The Register which
looks at the same general situation with respect to Linux:

	https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven

(Most of) the "FOSSDEM 2024" entries is part of series which ends
with "A path out of bloat …" which I think is well worth a good
ponder...


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