Comment by PaulDavisThe1st
5 years ago
> BeOS wasn't half bad. The failure was probably mostly commercial.
Fair point. You could probably say this of other attempted microkernels too, to be even fairer. But that doesn't really change the fundamental point that just cooking up "a better OS design" doesn't lead to it being successful. There's a lot more in play that "mere quality".
well if that sort of "successful" is your key metric, this is true for a lot of things and has been known since biblical times: "a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it"
you did say "by almost any metric".
the metric i was mostly thinking was inspired by the parent to my post, which seemed to me to imagine that Rust+microkernel => widescale deployment.