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For those who want the OpenBSD devs to abandon their many, many years of experience with C and instead adopt Rust, I think it's a fair question to ask the Rust

For those who want the OpenBSD devs to abandon their many, many years of experience with C and instead adopt Rust, I think it's a fair question to ask the Rust folks why they haven't just started from scratch and built their own unix-like operating system. This seems to be a more reasonable approach that trying to force an existing operating system to adopt their language. Oh wait, that's right, none of them has even gotten around to writing a replacement for ls, grep, .....

shmerl 9y ago
> I think it's a fair question to ask the Rust folks why they haven't just started from scratch and built their own unix-like operating system. Some did: https://www.redox-os.org https://www.redox-os.org > Oh wait, that's right, none of them has even gotten around to writing a replacement for ls, grep, They did that for some utils: https://github.com/redox-os/coreutils https://github.com/redox-os/coreutils > This seems to be a more reasonable approach that trying to force an existing operating system to adopt their language. I don't think anyone is forcing to adopt anything here. The question was about integrating languages like Rust in OpenBSD.
burntsushi 9y ago
> For those who want the OpenBSD devs to abandon their many, many years of experience with C and instead adopt Rust Who exactly? Can you actually point to anyone making this desire known in earnest?