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Sure it's foolish, but so was trying to 'outcompete' industry giants like IBM and Microsoft in the early 90s with a hobby kernel. That didn't stop a certain Fin
by flohofwoe 2y ago
Sure it's foolish, but so was trying to 'outcompete' industry giants like IBM and Microsoft in the early 90s with a hobby kernel. That didn't stop a certain Finn from just writing a kernel anyway. If that project hadn't taken off, then maybe another one, or another one.
Replacing any substantial parts of the Linux project with Rust also would be multi-decade effort, most likely more effort than forking off a separate evolutionary branch (which is probably the most realistic option). Such forks happened all the time in the history of UNIX.
- rowanG077 2y agoIt was considerably less foolish then, then now. It's not even close. The complexity of the operating system kernels has more then increased 50x over the last 34 years. It's not even remotely comparable. No one wants to replace substantial parts of the linux project with Rust. This is a straw man, and the same bad faith argument the set in their ways kernel greybeards are making. People just want to be able to write green field drivers in Rust.