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Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust
7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2023-09-22 · latest 2025-12-10
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By the way, M$$$ has already making the transition of its driver writing in Rust https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs maybe this will be good for the rest of the kernels, IllumOS/HaikuOS/ReactOS. maybe
comment by fithisux · 2025-12-10 · in Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental -
hum - yeah - https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs/issues/6
comment by malkia · 2025-02-21 · in Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" -
…For example reading from user provided memory that maybe invalid, you need "__try/__catch" there. https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs/blob/main/ex...
comment by malkia · 2025-02-21 · in Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us" -
…50% "SAFETY:" comments because they're stuck using the straight C bindings for every WDK API. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs/ [1] https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs/blob/main/ex...
comment by AndrewGaspar · 2025-02-08 · in Writing a simple windows driver in Rust -
…for production use", option. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/surfaceitpro/open-s... / https://github.com/microsoft/windows-drivers-rs
comment by gpm · 2024-12-15 · in Should programming languages be safe or powerful? -
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Platform that enables Windows driver development in Ruststory by mustache_kimono · 2023-09-24 · 142 comments
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Microsoft GitHub repo for writing Windows drivers in Ruststory by pjmlp · 2023-09-22 · 0 comments