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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by colemickens on Sunday July 15, 2018 @03:22PM (#17536586)
I was going to say it'd be even more interesting if it were OCI-compliant, but I forgot Oracle already wrote an OCI-compliant container runtime in Rust: https://github.com/oracle/railcar

Though I've never really heard of folks using OCI runtimes other than `runc` and kata/clearcontainers. (edit: I guess Chromium uses `run_oci`)

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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by archrabbit on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:46AM (#17539469)
One thing to note about railcar is that it completely lacks the network stack, but it will probably be my "starting point" if someday I decide to evolve `rabbitc` into something "more serious".
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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by navaati on Sunday July 15, 2018 @12:10PM (#17535805)
"Meant for learning purpose", this does not pretend to bring anything new/better.
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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by archevel on Sunday July 15, 2018 @01:50PM (#17536212)
For learning purposes I created quic[0]. I wanted to strip it down to the bare minimum for running something in a "container". I got as far as having it use a preexisting network namespace. The networking part felt like a major piece of work (setting up the network in bash was tedious) so I figured I'd call it a day and leave it as is. Lots of fun and learned a lot about containers/namespaces in the process.

[0] - https://github.com/archevel/quic

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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by golergka on Sunday July 15, 2018 @12:41PM (#17535946)
Wasn't Python and Postgresql intentionally created for learning purposes? I'm not saying that this project is just as important, just pointing out that "learning purposes" is not a good predictor of a useless project.
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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by m_sahaf on Sunday July 15, 2018 @12:45PM (#17535957)
"just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu" ~ Linus Torvalds
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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by emptybits on Sunday July 15, 2018 @03:54PM (#17536739)
Indeed. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.os.minix/dlN...
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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by blattimwind on Sunday July 15, 2018 @01:46PM (#17536193)
Python originated as a scripting language for a niche OS.

Postgresql came from adding SQL to postgres (mostly? a research project), while postgres itself was mainly a research project.

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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by eridius on Monday July 16, 2018 @07:59PM (#17546203)
Sqlite was originally a Tcl extension that "escaped into the wild".
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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by steve_adams_86 on Sunday July 15, 2018 @01:36PM (#17536159)
Not to mention all of the professional projects which failed and fell off the radar entirely. It's hard to say what has merits without giving it time.
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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by TomMarius on Sunday July 15, 2018 @01:07PM (#17536047)
Yeah, and aren't research projects often meant "for learning purposes" as well? :-)
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Re:Rabbitc – Micro-container runtime built in Rust by victor106 on Monday July 16, 2018 @12:09AM (#17538710)
https://imgur.com/gallery/FhiYXFA

For those lazy to click:

How a bad idea starts:- “That looks easy... I could do that.” How a good idea starts:- “That looks fun... I should do that”

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