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Vivo Unveils BlueOS, Based on Rust Language
- Beijinger 3y agoHarvey OS retired, now they do R9, also written in Rust https://harvey-os.org/2023/04/23/retirement.html https://harvey-os.org/2023/04/23/retirement.html
- pjmlp 3y agoI am always puzzled why Plan 9 is so looked upon instead of Inferno, where the best ideas from UNIX and Plan 9 were combined with a memory safe userspace language.
- sillywalk 3y agoI think that was part of it - you needed(?) to use Limbo to develop Inferno Apps, whereas Plan 9 uses C. It's odd, the Vita Nuova website looks unchanged for 20+ years, including a reference to an Inferno plugin for Internet Explorer 4+(!). I wonder if Inferno is being used in production somewhere? I know Plan 9 was/is used on supercomputers [0], and there was something called CellFS for programming the PS3/Cell architecture. [1] [0] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/blue_gene/ http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/blue_gene/ [1] http://ilab.usc.edu/packages/cell-processor/docs/IBM_redbook.pdf http://ilab.usc.edu/packages/cell-processor/docs/IBM_redbook...
- Beijinger 3y agoAFAIK it run on some (old) Lucent VPNs
- leoedin 3y agoThere's a lot of marketing fluff - anyone know what this actually is? Judging by the specs it runs on, it's an OS for application processors - like the kind in smartphones. They talk a lot about UI features, but not much about the interesting stuff. Is this truly a "new" OS written in Rust? Or is it just a repackaged android with a new GUI and some Rust libraries?
- flanked-evergl 3y ago> The standout feature of Vivo BlueOS is its utilization of the Rust programming language, marking a global first in building a system framework for an operating system. Using rust is not a feature.
- sudosysgen 3y agoPerhaps not for most applications, but I think it actually is for an OS. Operating systems are pretty tightly tied to the paradigm of their systems programming language, and possible memory-safety guarantees is a strong feature for an OS as well.
- kjs3 3y agoHistory does not seem to agree with you. There were memory safe(er) languages before Rust existed, and OSes written in those languages. Neither became popular.
- eyelidlessness 3y agoThat doesn’t make it a non-feature, necessarily. Lots of features in lots of software fail to drive that software’s success.
- orange_fritter 3y agoHonestly this whole thread is very pedantic. Popularity doesn't define a feature, and the writer probably just plucked the word "feature" from a few not-great options. Either way, general grumpiness about Rust being used to write an OS may be a reaction to the hype, but plenty of people have expressed interest in an OS written in Rust, if not for any other purpose than to challenge Rust's basic claims.
- pornel 3y agoHistorically, there has been a bigger trade-off between safety and performance, and performance has been much more important. Besides, there are many many factors determining successes of OSes, often far removed from quality of the software itself (1986 AmigaOS had GUI and multitasking, and still lost to MS-DOS and Windows 3.1).
- joemelonyeah 3y agoJust following the footsteps of Huawei, forking existing projects, making superficial changes and tacking a new skin on it. Claiming to be a new OS when it isn't is the modern China equivalent of Sega's "blast processing", it's marketing fluff to lure customers.
- tibbydudeza 3y agoHyperOS and also HarmonyOS2 :).
- Brian_K_White 3y agoA global first? And Redox OS?