[zaep]

I think that's not viable. To make that work you'd have to keep up with the kernel for years, probably more than a decade, to reach some kind of critical mass and become influential enough to be capable of separating from it and driving decisions that run counter to it. That's not even to mention the loss it would be to have these capable teams (rust proponents for the kernel and extremely experienced maintainers and contributors who want nothing to do with it) working in parallel at best and in partial opposition at worst, when they could work together.

[glitchc]

Why not? That's how Linux started. None of the Unix flavours were free at the time. Who was paying the community then?

If enough people get behind a Rust OS, it could leapfrog Linux. I guess people just don't dream big anymore.

[beretguy]

> To make that work you'd have to keep up with the kernel for years, probably more than a decade

That's a good thing. This will test rust's reliability.

[wsve]

This is much more of a manpower and money problem than it is a technical one. Of course it's possible to fork Linux and rewrite it in Rust. But who would spend all that time and energy doing that without the Linux foundations funds and expertise? You'd probably burn out within a few years before ever substantially converting the code base