Rust-Based Redox OS Is Nearly Self-Hosting After Four Years

'Redox OS, written in Rust and currently under development, is only "a
few months of work away" from self-hosting, meaning that the Rustc
compiler would run on Redox itself, according to its creator Jeremy
Soller...

Redox has a POSIX-compliant C library written in Rust, called relibc.
It is Linux-compatible both at the syscall API level and at the
syscall ABI (Application binary interface) level, subject to the same
architecture.

The article notes that the OS's latest release was version 0.5 last
March, arguing that it's "best described as experimental..."

"Still, if Rust continues to grow in popularity, its characteristics
of safety and unimpeded performance seem ideal for creating a new
operating system, so perhaps Redox will become more prominent."'

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/11/30/2011231

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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