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I wonder how big of a project would it be to port all of GNU/Linux to Rust.

Here's a start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7882211 https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/master/src



I'd rather see it ported to Scheme.


And then see it fall into disrepair and disuse because it becomes unmaintainable.

LISP is 50 years old. If it was going to become useful for high performance software in large scale distributed teams of development, it would have happened already.


Wow, what an extraordinarily ignorant and obtuse remark. Way to go HN!


Please kindly explain where it falls down specifically. Very happy to be wrong should I be missing sometihng.


No no, you are mistaken. His reply is a special one. See, it not only refers to your reply, but it refers to itself as well! It's amazingly efficient, no need to respond to it any further!


I hope fundamental pieces of GNU/Linux system can start migrating to Rust without the FSF objecting to rutsc using LLVM.


I wonder if there'd be less friction to porting a BSD - FreeBSD already uses clang to build the kernel+userland, for instance.




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