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Did you even read the blog post? This is running Linux, and only the AWS software-components running on it are largely written in Rust. It is still Linux and th

Did you even read the blog post? This is running Linux, and only the AWS software-components running on it are largely written in Rust. It is still Linux and the OS is not written in Rust, nor the container daemon and probably none of the non-AWS software packages.

pjmlp 6y ago
Most available userspace seems to be a mix of Rust and Go, except for existing stuff written in C like LinuxSE.
- chromedev 6y ago
  What userspace do you see written in Rust?
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    From this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24346300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24346300
    - chromedev 6y ago
      That honestly sounds terrible, and apparently only works on ECS. What a shame. I was thinking that AWS was actually going to provide something useful to the open source community.