On: Writing a file system from scratch in Rust

[smt88]

> How soon until someone builds an Operating System developed in Rust?

Redox[1] has been around for almost as long as Rust has. I first heard about it 4-5 years ago.

They had an interesting competition a while back challenging people to figure out how to crash it.

1. https://www.redox-os.org/

[blackrock → smt88]

Yeah, I heard about this project. But there’s a graveyard of dead OS projects out there.

What’s the progress and potential of Redox?

[mlindner → blackrock]

Redox is being worked on continuously. They just added support for gdb.