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So far, the only actual support that has been required is to not actively sabotage it. That’s not a high bar. There does seem to be very substantial interest i

So far, the only actual support that has been required is to not actively sabotage it. That’s not a high bar. There does seem to be very substantial interest in RfL in the kernel, with the exception of a few maintainers generating a lot of personal friction. Frankly, it’s exactly the kind of behavior you would be very worried to see from key people maintaining the most important operating system on the planet. My understanding is that part of the reason Linus approved the project is that the current state of Linux is unsustainable. I agree with him. Linux will evolve, or die. Gradually moving on from C will probably be part of that journey, sooner or later.

snvzz 2y ago
>There does seem to be very substantial interest in RfL in the kernel Citation needed. >the current state of Linux is unsustainable. I agree. And the issues are fundamental, to do with lack of structure. Doing anything in Linux is harder (in man hours) than doing it on a well-structured system. By orders of magnitude. But I do not see how to "evolve" a project that big (MLoCs) from chaos towards structure. Rather, I feel that a rewrite is a much better path. It could be a fundamentally much better design. A microkernel, multiserver design. Such efforts include: seL4 (a formally verified microkernel that also happens to be the fastest available) and multiserver efforts on top of it such as LionsOS or Genode. Redox (a multiserver OS with its own microkernel, written in Rust).