Redox is IMO trying to do too much at once. I'm not sure about Essence, but this seems to be a common failing of new OS efforts. A new kernel would be a monumen

Redox is IMO trying to do too much at once. I'm not sure about Essence, but this seems to be a common failing of new OS efforts. A new kernel would be a monumental achievement. Even a new windowing system would be awesome. Reinventing everything else at the same time is madness. Hopefully it's fun, but it's certainly not conducive to success, afaict. Some things might be easier to reimplement than to port, but how many cases are like that? All in all I'd be more excited about a new OS that reuses more existing open source code, as it'd be likely to become usable sooner.