Comment on Redox OS 0.9.0 - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS
dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 month agoLinux was a toy project without any use. Anything starts as a project without any use.
People want to work on it, and they’re putting effort in. If it’s not for you, that’s great. Just move on then
leisesprecher@feddit.org 1 month ago
Linux filled a gap. There was hardly any way to get something unixy running on commodity hardware.
What gap does Redox fill? What’s its USP? Just being written in rust can’t be it.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Even Torvalds said that a lot of critical parts of the kernel are completely undocumented and only one or two devs know how they work. IMO that’s completely unacceptable, especially for such an important OS. They’ve proven they don’t want to collaborate or communicate how they work to others.
Rust encodes a LOT of things into the type system, which makes it far, far easier to maintain since you don’t need docs, and since the compiler enforces these things automatically. Memory safety is only one of them.
Starting something in a modern language instead of one with so little safety is a massively important feature.