On: Writing Network Drivers in Rust [pdf]

[Thaxll]

Isn't the networking stack of Fuchsia written in Go?

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/garnet/+/master/go/src/nets...

https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror?language=go

I'm pretty sure Go is the dominant language for networking in Fuchsia and not Rust.

[squeed → Thaxll]

They're phasing much of the go and replacing it with rust.

[DougBTX → Thaxll]

Links in the presentation point here: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/garnet/+/master/bin/recover...

[derefr → Thaxll]

Different layers, perhaps? The DMAing around of physical packets, and the parsing of ARP/IP/TCP headers, require different safety guarantees.