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We need Rust to mature a bit before we can do that. Everything looks great on surface but as soon as you start doing low level coding a lot of issues pop up an
by panpanna 7y ago
We need Rust to mature a bit before we can do that.
Everything looks great on surface but as soon as you start doing low level coding a lot of issues pop up and you need the nightly compiler and xargo and some undocumented library for the boot sequence and whatnot.
TL;DR: great idea. Let's just wait 2 years
- madmax96 7y agoWould you happen to have a link to some sources describing some of these issues?
- panpanna 7y agoChoose any "let's write an OS in Rust" project that has recently been featured on HN. Then try to follow it using the stable compiler (sudo apt install rustc) and see what happens. Maybe "work in progress" better describes the situation. We need to wait for the language to stabilize, then the tooling and finally the libraries before starting a huge project like writing an OS.