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It's not apparent that Linux has won anything, the race is still open. Where are the real contenders is my question? Apparently they are still stuck at the sta
by nineteen999 6y ago
It's not apparent that Linux has won anything, the race is still open. Where are the real contenders is my question?
Apparently they are still stuck at the starting line, discussing endlessly how perfect their system will be when they finally choose the right language to implement it in.
- adrianN 6y agoMaking an OS takes a lot of manpower. Linux absorbs most of the programmer hours, the BSDs take almost all of the rest. What is left over for projects like Redox is a tiny team of developers. You can't expect a ton of hardware support to come out of those efforts.
- nineteen999 6y agoLinux and the BSD's grew to support x86/Sparc/POWER/Alpha/ARM/68K hardware in a time when hardware drivers mostly had to be reverse engineered from scratch or donated from companies that wanted support for their hardware mainlined into the kernel. As a result, anyone working on Redox, Fuschia, or whatever popular contender now have a massive library of driver source code to refer to when working in their languages of choice. This is not a resource that the Linux and 386BSD communities had when starting out. Rust isn't as standardized or at critical mass yet, as C was when Linux was launched. The language still lacks comparative mindshare, no matter how popular it is here on HN. That's why there aren't enough developers.