BeOS/Haiku got itself into the 250 MB range of a full-featured distro, in part by emphasizing code reuse in C++. (Though my understanding is that they used GNU

BeOS/Haiku got itself into the 250 MB range of a full-featured distro, in part by emphasizing code reuse in C++. (Though my understanding is that they used GNU grep et. al.) The current macroeconomic climate is wrong for this, but what if someone funded an effort to base an implementation of an entire OS on Rust, let's say, using Linux as a bootstrap? So there would be no requirements for "base to build base," and the developers dogfooding the toolchain would be strongly motivated to make builds faster, which would be rolled back into Rust.