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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?

Note: If this is inappropriate since this isn’t technically Linux, mods please take down.

  • DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    126·
    11 months ago

    This is one of my main gripes with the rust community. What programming language you used shouldn’t be of any concern to the end-user, let alone be put in the tagline.

    Rust is a very good and capable language and I enjoy using it. I can’t wait for the day it overtakes C or C++. But I want to know more about the program I’m using other than that it was written in a popular language.

    “Written in rust” is basically a meme at this point.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      This is typical of when a language is the new hotness. It eventually dies down, either because the language becomes endemic or it fades away.

    • Mactan [he/him]@lemmy.ml
      10·
      11 months ago

      not necessarily about the language, but things periodically getting rewritten or re-implemented is a useful exercise. it’s a moment for reflection and analysis of the structures and systems as a whole

    • jack@monero.town
      34·
      11 months ago

      Rust is used by modern people to create modern programs. If the program would be in C++ for example, a very complicated, error-prone language, that gives me insight into how well (or not) that program might be supported in the future