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> What do we mean by success? They should write an OS that is "so good" that people start talking about it as much as the options we have now, then people actu

> What do we mean by success? They should write an OS that is "so good" that people start talking about it as much as the options we have now, then people actually start using it on their servers (replacing GNU/Linux), then on their desktops. So good that companies like Google and Apple would consider making their next OSs or userland utilities in Rust. It already happened for some programs like Alacritty, ripgrep but failed to do so in some other domains like user-space window managers. The common argument against it is complexity and learning curve (compared to C). Perhaps I'm not the one who should voice his opinion on this but anyway, I don't like _two_ languages in Linux kernel especially one that increases compile time and imposes heavy storage requirement on the development machine. If they want to add it, they should consider migrating everything to it IMO.

iknowstuff 2y ago
exposing billions of people to security vulnerabilities by preventing Rust from being used in Rust due to compile times or storage requirements of developers is morally questionable
whytevuhuni 2y ago
> They should write an OS that is "so good" that people start talking about it as much as the options we have now, then people actually start using it Is the proposal here to replicate the 30 million lines of code of Linux? Anything short of that is going to have massive adoption problems, much like Linux did in the past, much like FreeBSD/Illumos/etc do now, due to the lack of drivers. It took so long, and devices still don't properly support Linux; there is no way another free and open source system will take off like Linux did, ever again. > failed to do so in some other domains like user-space window managers Do things like Way Cooler and COSMIC not count? I have seen Way Cooler mentioned as being used a couple times, and COSMIC gets regular coverage for its development progress.

iknowstuff 2y ago

exposing billions of people to security vulnerabilities by preventing Rust from being used in Rust due to compile times or storage requirements of developers is morally questionable

whytevuhuni 2y ago

> They should write an OS that is "so good" that people start talking about it as much as the options we have now, then people actually start using it Is the proposal here to replicate the 30 million lines of code of Linux? Anything short of that is going to have massive adoption problems, much like Linux did in the past, much like FreeBSD/Illumos/etc do now, due to the lack of drivers. It took so long, and devices still don't properly support Linux; there is no way another free and open source system will take off like Linux did, ever again. > failed to do so in some other domains like user-space window managers Do things like Way Cooler and COSMIC not count? I have seen Way Cooler mentioned as being used a couple times, and COSMIC gets regular coverage for its development progress.