flosse/rust-os-comparison
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A comparison of operating systems written in Rust
6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2015-10-25 · latest 2026-01-06
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https://github.com/flosse/rust-os-comparison Writing a toy one? Sure. Writing a real one? Who's gonna write all the drivers and the myriad other things? And the claim was not that it's "so much easier", but that it is so much easier to…
comment by gf000 · 2026-01-06 · in C Is Best (2025) -
…too cumbersome to write entire OS in it Not at all. See https://www.redox-os.org/ and many more: https://github.com/flosse/rust-os-comparison > all the example projects like AWS Firecracker end up with tons of unsafes. That's a good thing.…
comment by zxvkhkxvdvbdxz · 2024-12-29 · in Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized -
It might seem like that if your only exposure to Rust is the comment you replied to. https://github.com/flosse/rust-os-comparison
comment by itishappy · 2024-08-29 · in Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust, & why Linux is the only thing that matters -
> "the Rust people" There is no such thing. There are people developing a complete OS in Rust: https://github.com/flosse/rust-os-comparison There are people interested in making the Linux kernel more memory safe using Rust. And from what I…
comment by prmoustache · 2024-08-29 · in Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust, & why Linux is the only thing that matters -
…of kernels have already been written in Rust, some of which are already fairly full-featured: https://github.com/flosse/rust-os-comparison
comment by kragen · 2022-09-10 · in Graydon Hoare: 21 compilers and 3 orders of magnitude in 60 minutes -
https://github.com/flosse/rust-os-comparison
comment by achanda358 · 2015-10-25 · in Writing an OS in Rust