Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:00PM
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In the same imaginary world, creating a new POSIX OS that isn't Linux is a giant waste of time just from gap in drivers alone. If you're going to ditch all that hardware support then you may as well ditch POSIX and its crap while you're at it.
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Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust
by pjmlp on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:36AM
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Which is a reason why despite disliking what Google did to Sun and how hard they make to use the NDK, in the end I appreciate their Android design.
No POSIX for userspace as official API, rather ISO C and C++ APIs plus Android native APIs.
Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @06:24PM
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Unless you have some portable standard to target, you just tied the entire universe to exactly 1 OS implementation. I would like to not do that.
Re:Redox – A Unix-Like Operating System Written in Rust
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @10:46PM
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Bull. People developed software for multiple completely different computer architectures throughout the 80s and 90s. People do it today between different game console platforms in addition to operating systems. Even if you try and target something like SDL or a web browser your abstraction won't save you from a platform's quirks once you reach a certain level of complexity and then you'll have to work around it anyway.
Hell, even between supposedly POSIX systems there's a lot of #ifdef going on to make things work.