[pbininda]

Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready.

Written by Linus Torvalds on Sunday, 25 August, 1991 in comp.os.minix

[simion314]

You should then search and find all ShitApp made in Rust and post it on HN because the chance that it will be good in 15 years is not zero, probably 1/10^10^10^10 .

[rvz]

Eventually, a full OS or OS kernel written in Rust is going to compete with Linux whether if you like it or not, unless either the maintainers want to have fun fixing the same old C vulnerabilities and bugs for more years or they adopt Rust themselves.

You may not like it, Linus or his maintainers may not like it, but that is where the future is heading.

Downvoters: I know. The future is Rust and change is scary for something like Linux. Good luck finding mountains of use-after-frees or memory corruption vulnerabilities which fixing those in every part of the kernel is a losing battle that Rust has already eliminated in the first place.