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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

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