I would like to see more innovative kernels and not toy projects here on HN, and I mean kernels implemented by people with years of real world experience that bring new ideas (any dude can read some blog and book and badly re implement a mini subset of Linux)
Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready.
Written by Linus Torvalds on Sunday, 25 August, 1991 in comp.os.minix
You should then search and find all ShitApp made in Rust and post it on HN because the chance that it will be good in 15 years is not zero, probably 1/10^10^10^10 .
Eventually, a full OS or OS kernel written in Rust is going to compete with Linux whether if you like it or not, unless either the maintainers want to have fun fixing the same old C vulnerabilities and bugs for more years or they adopt Rust themselves.
You may not like it, Linus or his maintainers may not like it, but that is where the future is heading.
Downvoters: I know. The future is Rust and change is scary for something like Linux. Good luck finding mountains of use-after-frees or memory corruption vulnerabilities which fixing those in every part of the kernel is a losing battle that Rust has already eliminated in the first place.
What I want is that HN will have less toy stuff upvoted because the title contains a specific keyword. I will submit tomorrow my X11 re implementation in Rust, it is a thing I made in weekends, full of bugs , it is missing everything and I am not experienced in anything graphics related but I read half a book about X11 and a fvew Rust blogs and now I will be on HN first page and get tons of stars on GitHub.
Long story short, HN should not be IMO a Rust forum where any toy or shit re-implementation is admitted but it is what it is, fanboys will up-vote anything until the Rust image gets completely destroyed.
Exactly. That also goes for the Rust upvote rings artificially voting any projects with 'written in Rust™' in the title or every single Rust patch release.
Chances are, the crate is not even production ready.
