Comment by dragonelite
10 months ago
It sounds so simple, I don't get it why the Rust people don't write their own operating system or bundle their human capital to such a project.
They have been trying for years now to integrate Rust in the Linux kernel they could have made some good progress on a rust only OS by now. If only just a kernel that can run server like application without a gui shell.
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.
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?
Defining a rust API to the linux kernel is one of the endeavours of the Linux kernel project AFAIK