Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS
www.redox-os.org
The Redox official website

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.

  • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    As much as I want to love Rust, that’s not entirely true.

    Writing a web API in Rust is a pain. It requires way too much boilerplate for very low level concepts. For example having to deal with all the lifetime crap in a simple CRUD endpoint. I understand why that’s necessary, but compared to Python or Java it’s just a very large mental load overhead.

    • Schmeckinger@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      You need less and less lifetimes as time goes on. The compiler gets better at inferring them and you could always use the heap if you wanted to or if what you are doing isn’t very low level.