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Jarkko Sakkinen

The Rust project that I disagree the most must be oreboot. "Saturation of an ecosystem" is not my favorite feature ever tbh. And it is just initializing the hardware. Not making world a better place, which should be always the goal. #coreboot
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 6 months ago
... and there's some technical disadvantages.

Great thing in C is that given the most trivial binary layout, it is pretty easy to debug just in raw (disassembled) assembly without debug symbols. If you are a long timer you can quickly get an idea. And early hardware initialization is exactly the slot where this kind of simplicity does make sense.

Thus, in oreboot's case you can pretty objectively say that it is purely ideology driven project with zero actual technical "useful in the field" merits.
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