Now imagine the new COSMIC desktop environment in Rust on Redox, that would be great
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Having some hardware mentioned on the site that is supported and ready for use could be helpful if someone wants to try it (say raspberry pi), There are probably people who are worried to will make their computer explode.
https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/HARDWARE.md
It can be found from the "Quick Start" page
How long would it take to compile their Rust microkernel alone compared to a similar one done in C? There are many posts around the web complaining about Rust's long compile times, though thankfully rarely as slow as C++
Oh my god they rewrote Linux in Rust. Amazing.
Kinda. Redox uses a microkernel architecture and tries to keep only the most important functionality in ring 0 while they push everything else in userspace. It's great.
So they actually rewrote The Hurd in Rust.
Many lessons were learned from the Hurd that has impacted ALL microkernel kernel and userspace designs, but it is ancient by today's standards.
Its more accurate to say they were "rewriting" MINIX, but I don't like the word "rewriting" as all of these systems are unique in their own way.
I've heard about it due to the Ion shell which I tried out once
Ion's been my go to local scripting language for a while