We’re not great at marketing, but we excel at delivering quality content focused on Linux to developers, administrators, and free-software supporters. Help us continue by subscribing. Joshua Liebow-Feeser shared his team’s approach to encode constraints in the Rust type system for the Fuchsia OS at RustConf. They tackled netstack3, a massive networking stack, with 63 crates and 60 developer-years of code. By enforcing invariants through Rust types, only three bugs surfaced after rigorous testing on 60 devices for eleven months. Liebow-Feeser detailed the three-step process of definition, enforcement, and consumption to ensure program correctness, advocating for a method that can revolutionize software engineering.
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