As a lover of Rust, ooo boy does this sound like a bad idea. The Rust compiler is not guaranteed to always output safe code against malicious inputs given that there’s numerous known soundness bugs that allow exploiting this. Unless I’m missing something this is a security nightmare of an idea.
Also there’s reasons why eBPF programs aren’t allowed to run arbitrarily long and this just ignores that problem too.
It’s a common HN trope to generalise a “community” based on a handful of people or even just one person. “See this is why I dislike the xyz community”, says a person justifying their confirmation bias.
Perhaps the world is too complex without breaking it down into in-groups and out-groups, with any out-groups supposedly being completely homogenous. Pretty intellectually lazy but fairly common on HN, to the point where it’s not even worth calling out.
Also there’s reasons why eBPF programs aren’t allowed to run arbitrarily long and this just ignores that problem too.
If it has to be native code, it should live on user space, at very least.
Maybe i'm missing something, but isn't that a bad thing?
Why judge the whole Rust community for the choices made by one minor subgroup?
Perhaps the world is too complex without breaking it down into in-groups and out-groups, with any out-groups supposedly being completely homogenous. Pretty intellectually lazy but fairly common on HN, to the point where it’s not even worth calling out.
(I may come across as an Ada zealot myself.)