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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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

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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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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It’s a system programming language that isn’t C or C++.

Edit to add: How did Go get on that page? That’s a stretch.

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[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

That would complicate things even more.

Rust has pretty sophisticated guarantees in terms of memory safety. If you'd add the step of another compiler, you'd have to guarantee that a) the transpiler still produces memory safe C and that a given C compiler actually turns that C code into memory safe assembler.

BTW: you don't have to rewrite everything immediately, you can integrate rust into existing C and vice versa. Apparently it's not trivial, but possible. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

[–] callyral@pawb.social 0 points 10 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.