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Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust. (blog.lenot.re)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Enter Maestro, a unix-like monolithic kernel that aims to be compatible with Linux in order to ensure wide compatibility. Interestingly, it is written in Rust. It includes Solfége, a boot system and daemon manager, maestro-utils, which is a collection of system utility commands, and blimp, a package manager. According to Luc, it’s creator, the following third-party software has been tested and is working on the OS: musl (C standard library), bash, Some GNU coreutils commands such as ls, cat, mkdir, rm, rmdir, uname, whoami, etc… neofetch (a patched version, since the original neofetch does not know about the OS). If you want to test it out, fire up a VM with at least 1 GB of ram.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because rust is the modern low level systems language, which means it gotta go fast without all the freaking problems of the only other real alternative so far that was C. The languages you list don't even play in the same ballpark.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But a kernel written in Perl would be a real achievement. Something in a whole different league.

[–] cd_slash_rmrf 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It definitely would be. Next time someone posts a kernel written in Perl I hope they specify that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Pernel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Honest question from someone using C++, though not for systems- or embedded stuff, just for object oriented models that gotta go fast: Why is C++ not in the same ballpark, and not an alternative?