When is Rust going to have a stable distro experience? [LWN.net]

When is Rust going to have a stable distro experience?

Posted Jun 28, 2025 2:57 UTC (Sat) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: When is Rust going to have a stable distro experience? by pizza
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> (But I'd also caution you to recognize that not every bit of code in a car, airplane, or medical device has "life or death" safety implications. There are strict redundancy, robustness, and isolation requirements for the latter..)

Indeed, the amount of code that has safety implications in aviation is probably dwarfed by the amount of code that's just there to make the seat-back entertainment system work.

(And no, that's not a problem. The entertainment system is or should be fully air-gapped from the avionics. It's really just an elaborate HTPC-like-thing with a lot of screens and a terrible bespoke UI. If it breaks, oh well, the passengers can't watch movies, and maybe we have to do the safety presentation the old-fashioned way instead of playing the fancy video that marketing told us we're supposed to play for that purpose.)

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When is Rust going to have a stable distro experience?

Posted Jun 28, 2025 22:13 UTC (Sat) by SLi (subscriber, #53131) [Link]

Eh, yes, should be. Cost cutting always results in "there's an obviously idiot proof software solution, nothing can go wrong." 🙈 Which might even work well enough absent hostile attacks. In practice, although I don't know all the safety critical domains, I'm afraid it's more like VLANs instead of physically separate networks. And that... probably works, absent malice, which the industries are only learning to think about.