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It sounds so simple, I don't get it why the Rust people don't write their own operating system or bundle their human capital to such a project. They have been

It sounds so simple, I don't get it why the Rust people don't write their own operating system or bundle their human capital to such a project. They have been trying for years now to integrate Rust in the Linux kernel they could have made some good progress on a rust only OS by now. If only just a kernel that can run server like application without a gui shell.

jenadine 2y ago
There are many Rust OS mentioned in this thread. (Eg Redox) But the success of an OS also depends on the availability of drivers, and it's hard to compete with existing proven OS such as Linux on that front.
- llm_trw 2y ago
  So build a kernel that uses the same API as Linux but in Rust. Surely it should be easy if you're asking the Linux people to do the same thing for drivers written in Rust?
  - makapuf 2y ago
    Defining a rust API to the linux kernel is one of the endeavours of the Linux kernel project AFAIK