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Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU

80 points by arto

by prologic

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I just compared this Rust implementation against the original C sources. Some ~50k SLOC (Rust) compared to maybe ~8-12k SLOC of C (depending on if you count headers). Why is the Rust implementation so much more complex and onerous?

by mjhay

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I used to like rust, but I feel like I’m being Pavlovian-conditioned to recoil at its mention now.

by bijowo1676

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The ultimate boss of Rust rewrites. Very happy that LLM assisted coding unlocks these kind of projects

by globalnode

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rust evangelism is some people / youth of today trying to differentiate themselves from their parents, aka heavy metal of programming. its ok, its fun. i cant read their source code but i dont need to, theres a whole world out there of c/c++/python stuff that will get the job done faster and with less hassle.

by jagged-chisel

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How to the binary sizes compare? An original Linux 0.11 kernel vs. this oxidized version.

by richard_todd

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Honestly -- and I know this project is just a toy/fun experiment -- with modern AI, I think this is the correct approach to Rust-ifying projects. Just fork it and do an AI-assisted wholesale conversion, and run in parallel for a while to make sure all the regressions are found. Then you can compare to the original for benefits and drawbacks, and you get a more idiomatic code-base... instead of trying to convince longstanding projects to go into a half-rust Frankenstein model, which is what I usually see.

by broodbucket

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I hate that 5 years ago I'd see a headline like this and think it was awesome, and now it's just "look at what someone's spent tokens on today"

by devy

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by drnick1

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by xqb64

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by irishcoffee

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by rvz

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Nice project, with so many emojis at the start of every title of the README.
Wonder who could have done that?

by xyst

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