"Rust - the future of system programming, C - the new Assembler"

At the recent Open Source Technology Summit (OSTS) Summit, Josh Triplett, a leading Intel engineer, said his company was interested in seeing Rust achieve parity in the near future. still dominant in systemic and low-level development, C.

In his talk under the heading “Intel and Rust: the future of system programming”, he also talked about the history of system programming, how C became the “default” system programming language, what features of Rust give it an advantage over C, and how in the near future it will will be able to completely replace C in this area of programming.

Triplett himself defines system programming as "everything that is not an application." It includes such things as BIOS, firmware, bootloaders and operating system kernels, various types of embedded low-level code, as well as virtual machine implementations. Interestingly, Triplett believes that the web browser is also system software, since the browser has long become more than “just a program”, turning into an independent “platform for websites and web applications”.

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