Hello, and welcome to a new edition of Links lists! Rust and some history this week!
Coding
Rust in the kernel
Many people are advocating for integrating Rust in the Linux kernel, which is written (mostly) in C and assembler.
Rust is famous for its memory safety guarantees, which is why many people find that it could have a place for writing kernels and drivers. In particular, Google has setup a public prototype and has an interesting post on a sample driver written in Rust. Here are a couple of links.
Also, if you wanna have fun, look up what Linus Torvalds thinks of C++! Here's the original email, written in the usual polite and calm tone Torvalds is famous for! :-)
Indexes in Postgres
A quick, but good introduction about the various kinds of indexes in PostgreSQL.
History of containers
An old (2015), but interesting history about the origin of containers from Red Hat.
Non-coding
Plastic
A long, rather opinionated, but very interesting article I've read recently about the history of plastic.
