Re: MS going to rust (and Linux too)

["Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>]

On 24/09/2022 18:49, G.B. wrote:
> On 24.09.22 15:05, Luke A. Guest wrote:
>> On 24/09/2022 12:41, G.B. wrote:
>>
>>> Write a really good driver for Linux using Ada 2012 and do not use
>>> capital letters in the source text, at least where Linux doesn't.
>>> Be silent about the language. Can an Adaist do that, to save the
>>> language?
>>
>> The biggest problem is that the compiled runtime is compiler version 
>> dependent and the pain of making a runtime for linux kernel dev 
>> available for each and every compiler version, remember these things 
>> can also change on a version change too.
> 
> Won't the Ada run-time need very little?

You would need to generate bindings to the linux header files per release.

1) I guarantee you he will have a hissy fit over having to have a 
bootstrap compiler.
2) Likely another hissy fit because gcc's binding generator has a 
propensity for stripping out names and replacing them with useless 
"arg*" type identifiers.

There are likely some small parts you might want, maybe a small 
secondary stack? Partial interfaces.c packages.