A shame it is done in C++ tho. We all know this kind of project should be done in Rust.
When will there be a decent Rust unikernel as a drop in replacement for the standard lib/async-std/tokio/whatever ?
Imagine deploying a safe REST Api as a 20MB image on top of Xen/KVM, with performances on par as a JS equivalent... nobody would use containers then.
I'm taking this and your other remarks as sarcasm. But still, here we go again.
> When will there be a decent Rust unikernel as a drop in replacement for the standard lib/async-std/tokio/whatever ?
You seem to be knowledgeable and interested in such a project. Perhaps you care to create or contribute to such a unikernel project to test against the IncludeOS project?
If not then sit back and keep on waiting.
I'm involved with nanos/ops.
- is the Nano unikernel open source ? A quick (maybe too quick) google search tells me no.
- can you customize the component you want a la MirageOS, eg is it possible in the future to add a fail2ban to your app with a single command line ? same for filesystem and so on.
- is performance on par at least with other linux systems ?
- does it support rust ? not metal barebone rust, but rust with at least the std lib ?
It also runs rust very well.
To your Rust question it seems like the standard library is supported https://github.com/nanovms/ops-examples/blob/master/rust/02-...
When someone write it? Why not you even?
As a user, I don't care whether the tool is in Go, C++, Rust, or whatever else. If Docker was written in C (or Rust, or whatever else), it would have zero effect on my usage of Docker.
SQLite is written in ANSI C. What's your point?
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-9237...
This is my point.
anthk:~>syspatch -l | wc -l
15
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1418...
We are counting memory corruption and UB bugs here.
https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/11/microsoft-exploring-rust-...
70% of microsoft errors would be gone in future if they start using what you demean as "toy" language.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...
Yes, it isn't Rust and uses automatic memory management, however as proven by their deployments in production, it is quite usable.