ToaruOS With Kernel Written From Scratch Is Still In Development

[Hi-Angel]

Over Torvalds dead body.

Well, let's not make of Linus a hated in the nation. I've read somewhere that in the time they tried C++, it was barely usable — like a slow or faulty machine code, and (obviously) nothing of C++14 features.

I remember reading some mailing post of Linus about a feature to the kernel that didn't make him happy, though good-looking in general (I can't remember what was it, I saw it ≈a few months ago), he put it like "…but I'm trusting to <maintainer_name>, if he thinks it worth it, so be it". I'd expect if there was a discussion starting with a good detailed mail about all the pros'n'cons of Rust, and maintainers would agree to the points, Linus would not hinder to the adoption of Rust in the kernel.

[starshipeleven]

Rust's place in the kernel.

Over Torvalds dead body.

[Hi-Angel]

I respect everyone who writes an OS so far! But I think, Redox OS has good potential to be the next generation OS.

https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-summer-in-redox-15/

Last I heard, It was compatible with neither of existing drivers. It's a proof-of-concept. I'd rather expect (and I'd hope for it) that Linux kernel would start accepting Rust code. But it's nice to have a working kernel written in Rust, because it would be an important point in the discussion about Rust's place in the kernel.

[Steffo]

I respect everyone who writes an OS so far! But I think, Redox OS has good potential to be the next generation OS.

https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-summer-in-redox-15/

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ToaruOS With Kernel Written From Scratch Is Still In Development

Two years ago to the day the most-viewed article was about A Hobby Kernel and User-Space, Runs Mesa and GCC. That hobbyist OS written from scratch seemed promising back then but hadn't heard anything at all since. When deciding to check on the project today I was anticipating that it had died off, but surprisingly, it's still under development...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ToaruOS-Development-2016