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ixy-languages is a repository exploring the implementation of the ixy network driver (originally written in C) in multiple programming languages, showing how the same core logic can be expressed across language boundaries. The ixy driver is a minimal DPDK-based user-space NIC driver intended for education, demonstration, and controlled experimentation. This project reimplements the ixy driver architecture in Rust, Go, C++, Zig, and possibly other languages, maintaining the same driver semantics and API so users can compare performance, expressivity, safety, and expressiveness trade-offs. The repository helps systems and networking learners understand how low-level I/O code behaves differently in memory-safe languages versus unsafe ones. Each language subdirectory includes build scripts, language-specific idioms (e.g. unsafe blocks in Rust), binding layers, and benchmarks for packet I/O and latency.
Features
- Multi-language implementations of the same minimal ixy NIC driver
- Comparative benchmarks of throughput, latency, and resource usage across languages
- Subdirectories with language-specific idioms, build tools, and binding layers
- Documentation on porting, memory safety, and language tradeoffs in systems programming
- Testing harnesses and scripts to drive packet I/O workloads
- Educational case study bridging low-level networking and language design principles
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