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Redox OS - an OS built entirely out of Rust (www.redox-os.org)

submitted 9 months ago by ChiefSinner@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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This isn't Linux, but Linux-like. Its a microkernel built from the rust programming language. Its still experimental, but I think it has great potential. It has a GUI desktop, but the compiler isn't quite fully working yet.

Has anyone used this before? What was your experience with it?

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[–] callyral@pawb.social 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

(notice: I am not a Rust or C/C++ expert)

Doing all that is creating a completely separate programming language from C. Rust is that programming language.

Fix shitty imports

Rust does that with modules and crates.

Improve syntax rule

You mean having consistent/universal style guidelines? Rust pretty much has that with rustfmt.

Improve memory management

Safe Rust is memory safe (using things like the borrow checker), and Unsafe Rust is (usually?) separated using the unsafe keyword.

Although Unsafe Rust seems to be quite a mess, idk haven't tried it

Other new misc features

Rust has macros, iterators, lambdas, etc. C doesn't have those. C++ probably has those but in a really weird C++ way.

[–] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I should have framed my words better, I guess. Rust is a radically different language, and honestly, none of the feature it offers fixes the main issue, that is technical debt - I mean yes, there's incline C or FFI, but that's still going to be a radical migration.

What I'm trying to propose is an alternative project, independent from the ISO. Maybe it could be a C-to-Rust, or a C-to-Vale migration project. It could be any of the modern language, I don't really care. But that particular compiler/transpiler/migrationpiler/-piler should have the ability to do step-by-step migration.

[–] Spore@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I'd say no. Programming safely requires non-trivial transformation in code and a radical change in style, which afaik cannot be easily done automated.

Do you think that there's any chance to convert from this to this? It requires understanding of the algorithm and a thorough rewrite. Automated tools can only generate the former one because it must not change C's crooked semantics.