• jakobmn@feddit.dk
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    1 year ago

    It’s certainly happening a lot faster than I expected. It will be interesting to see how the stability of rust drivers will be. Prior to reading the write-up of why the GPU drivers for the M1 silicon was written in Rust, I could not see how it would be beneficial to introduce a new point of failure by adding Rust support in the kernel, but now I think it’s a good idea to slowly migrate in that direction. It just means that I will have to teach myself Rust sooner or later.

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      1 year ago

      People aren’t drooling over rust for no reason :)

      Regarding the M1, yea… I’ve actually got mine sitting beside me right now (because I borked my main computer an hour ago and needed it). It runs incredibly impressively - I’ve even gotten Minecraft to 60FPS. Considering they’re writing the drivers from scratch with no documentation on the parts they’re implementing, it’s mind boggling.