[HN Gopher] Redox OS Development Priorities for 2023/24
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       Redox OS Development Priorities for 2023/24
        
       Author : akyuu
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2023-10-06 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Ericson2314 wrote:
       | I've been really meaning to get using relibc with NixOS going.
       | (relibc supports Linux syscalls too).
       | 
       | Not going to lie, there's a lot of money for RIIR these days ;).
       | More seriously, libc is a very crucial piece of software and a
       | good candidate for writing in a better language. Showing that we
       | can blur the lines further between a Linux and Rust OS userland
       | makes the latter kernel seem much more viable. Should be a win-
       | win all around.
        
       | kibwen wrote:
       | As a PopOS user I'll be quite interested to see if Cosmic is
       | deemed mature enough to ship in 2024, as suggested earlier this
       | year.
        
       | e12e wrote:
       | > Our approach is to make our C library, relibc, the interface
       | for the stable ABI, and to make relibc a dynamic library.
       | 
       | Seems reasonable - but will this lead to a situation similar to
       | GNU libc, where static binaries are difficult/impossible? (See
       | many discussions on glibc vs musl etc).
        
         | Ericson2314 wrote:
         | Nope. You can still statically link everything but libc, and if
         | you know your kernel version you can statically link your
         | kernel too.
        
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