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If that's the case, I don't really get the purpose of this. It's presumably not a useful system for day to day computing. The main reason I could see someone wa
by kelnos 3mo ago
If that's the case, I don't really get the purpose of this. It's presumably not a useful system for day to day computing. The main reason I could see someone wanting to build this would be as an educational exercise, and using an LLM to do it completely fails at that.
- kadoban 3mo agoFiguring out how to prompt and test is educational, and it's potentially a useful test of a model/harness.
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- oalae5niMiel7qu 3mo agoThe purpose of this project is probably to create something that can be pointed to while saying "This is evidence that the entire Linux kernel could be rewritten in Rust! So now you have to agree to rewrite the modern kernel!"
- hulitu 3mo agoThe linux kernel is already bloated. We don't need more bloat.
- cestith 3mo agoI would presume Linux 0.11 itself wouldn’t be considered very useful for day to day computing this century. This seems a proof of concept on a very early, simpler version of the kernel. As a PoC I find it useful as exactly that.
- paddim8 3mo agoWell maybe they just did it for fun