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I feel like either OpenBSD or NetBSD would probably make good candidates for experimenting with rewriting the operating system in Rust. They're small enough to
by chungy 7y ago
I feel like either OpenBSD or NetBSD would probably make good candidates for experimenting with rewriting the operating system in Rust. They're small enough to make some significant inroads in rapid pace, but also general purpose enough to not be useless.
- renox 7y agoIf memory serves, NetBSD's strength is its portability.. So given the current state of Rust's portability, I doubt that they are very interested. As for OpenBSD, I wouldn't hold my breath: remember that Rust isn't the first 'safe' low level language but the others (Ada for example) didn't find success inside OpenBSD. That said development follow fashions, so who knows?
- chungy 7y agoMy own feelings didn't reflect that the upstream projects should, nor necessarily would, switch. I was thinking more in terms of a fork to research the avenue.
- pjmlp 7y agoBetter look at Genode OS and what they are doing with C++, Ada and SPARK integration, than hoping any UNIX clone will ever use anything else other than C.