There's Redox, which was just discussed on HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10295187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10295187 There are

There's Redox, which was just discussed on HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10295187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10295187 There are also a couple of projects re-implementing the standard UNIX utilities in Rust and Go. I suspect that, like Linux couldn't have exploded in popularity without an existing and excellent suite of utility programs, it's unlikely a new OS could take off without the same existing for it. Though, implementing a UNIX-like/POSIX-compatible kernel might be a reasonable starting point. So far, however, the folks working on operating systems in Rust and Go are wanting to implement actually new operating systems, not merely reimplement UNIX in those languages. Which is to say, maybe an impossible goal, I dunno. No other kind of "make a better OS" project has actually succeeded without massive financial backing, and there have been many.