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Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by codearm on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @03:20PM (#22302369)
A series of blog posts to write an OS from scratch in Rust: https://os.phil-opp.com/
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Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by reificator on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @04:08PM (#22302872)
Surely if you're interested in another language suitable for writing an OS, translating from rust shouldn't be very difficult.

The other way around might be, as rust semi-intentionally makes it difficult to do things like linked lists or big mutable graphs that other languages encourage.

But rust->c should be fairly easy if you know c and the book teaches enough rust. Sum types get replaced with null and unions, traits get replaced with functions that take that type, etc...

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Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by martonlanga on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @04:01PM (#22302798)
haha, why?
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