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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by ksec on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:17AM (#24341950)
Do you think there will be a possibility someday Linux will be replaced, both on Mobile ( Android ) and on Server?

I keep wondering if Microsoft opens up the Windows Kernel ( And Kernel only ), would it change the landscape much.

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Re:Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust by pjmlp on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:41AM (#24342273)
On the age of cloud based runtimes and OS agnostic containers, Linux is an implementation detail of the server.

On Android Linux is an implementation detail, most of it isn't exposed to userspace, not even on the NDK as Linux APIs aren't part of the stable interface specification.

And ART is being ported to run on top of Fuchsia as well (https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/fuchsia), so...

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