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Re: [Google Summer of Code 2013] - Mozilla Rust language bindings
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Samuel Thibault |
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Re: [Google Summer of Code 2013] - Mozilla Rust language bindings |
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Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:51:12 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30) |
Nolan Tunnicliffe, le Fri 15 Feb 2013 17:07:39 +1300, a écrit :
> >Samuel Thibault wrote
> >I however have to say you probably underestimate the amount of work
> >needed to write a driver. The language can help in some way, but not
> >very much. The main part of difficulty is to manage to understand how
> >the device really works, and devise something that works with it. We
> >don't really want to spend time on this, and rather use a maintained
> >layer like DDE.
> If you will be able to use Linux drivers, perfect. I was under the impression
> that rewrites were required.
Nope, we take the drivers source code as it is.
Samuel