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The State of Rust on Haiku

by squiguy7 on 7/6/18, 4:47 PM with 84 comments

• by adamnemecek on 7/6/18, 6:18 PM

  I wonder if Haiku could become the foundation for a new os. Haiku but based on Rust. It would be a match made in heaven, Haiku's secret sauce is the asyncness of the API. This was doable in C++ however Rust and haiku are a wombo combo!

• by e12e on 7/7/18, 2:19 AM

  > Rustc memory usage on Linux is also high, but it never runs out of memory. I would like to figure out the cause of this issue.

  Strange. I hope this isn't simply a case of wildly over-committing memory and getting away with it on Linux. But then I guess the bsd folks would have is yes too?

• by mastrsushi on 7/8/18, 7:24 PM

  The state of (Anything) on Haiku.

• by dorfsmay on 7/6/18, 5:29 PM

  For others who like me have a hard time keeping track of which OS is what...

  "Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful."

  From: https://www.haiku-os.org/

• by neduma on 7/6/18, 5:36 PM

  Some reasons i was thinking Rust in Heroku. Need coffee!!

• by abhiminator on 7/6/18, 5:48 PM

  This is exciting -- Rust has already shown great results through its implementation in Firefox (made me dump Chrome for Quantum)[0], so building a whole new operating system using the language makes perfect sense -- a great test bed for the language, imo.

  And given the fact that Haiku OS team's goal is to build a 'unified' and well-fused OS for personal use [1], using a single language should greatly help with reducing complexity and improving robustness.

  [0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-h... [1] https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq#what-is-haiku