Rust project startup kit
Rust project startup kit
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How about a federated link aggregator?
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Didn't know Lemmy was written in Rust.
Edit: yep, it is https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Yoo it uses AGPL v3 too. That's pretty cool. Love to see it
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Well, that escalated rather quickly.
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So I watched a few guides and did all that... what now? Would you think a shopping list app is doable for my knowledge after this? It looks really hard compared to NorgurOS... :(
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Let me on the Linux kernel irq I can redo the whole thing!
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For people who don't know, there is already a fully Rust OS: https://www.redox-os.org/
Microkernel too which is pretty cool.
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IIRC the filesystem was literally just a text file.
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I have heard about Redox. What's the difference between a microkernel and a kernel? Does redox use the linux kernel? Or has the guy written that in rust too?
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Well, think microkernels as the bare minimum. They give you just enough to write your own OS on top of that: only the bare essentials run in kernel space, whilst everything else runs in user space and has to communicate with the kernel. Compare this to a monolithic kernel, like the Linux kernel: here, the whole operating system is run in kernel space, which means that data doesn’t need to be moved between user and kernel space: this makes the OS faster, but at the cost of modularity. Redox doesn’t use the Linux kernel, it uses its own microkernel written in Rust.
Edit: A good example would be driver. In a microkernel, these run separately from the kernel and interact with it when needed. In a monolithic kernel, these drivers would be included in the kernel itself. They both have their pros and cons: if you’re interested, feel free to look it up.
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lots and lots more IPC. So lots and lots of context switches. So worse performance
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Very small projects 😂 after mastering it try building whooping to-do app in rust!
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This actually wrong way to do it, here the pro way:
1.Start writing a game/app/engine/os.
2.Write dozen utility packages for it.
3.Write high-level packages for #2
4.Write a "light-weight" version of #3 when disgusted with bloat of #3.
5.repeat #2 with more modern rust code.
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you have been looking at my private github repos and are clearly a witch
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I'm in this picture and I don't like it. Also, you forgot:
1.5 Get completely wrapped around the axle by writing tooling to support said game engine art assets.
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Don't forget to upload them all to crates.io. Add them to the list of useless crates that no one will ever use.
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Small science projects:
- Baking soda and vinegar volcano
- Moon landing
- Splitting the atom
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I love how simple and small scale splitting an atom sounds. Then you get to doing it…
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Splitting individual atoms isn't that difficult, you just need a neutron supply and some material (paraffin wax works) to slow them down and it will eventually happen at least with uranium. Doing it reliably and efficiently is a much harder problem.
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It's just the natural progression of things
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I mean you're not wrong, but it kind of skips a lot of in-between steps.
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It's a matter of perspective. If the game is Tic-Tac-Toe and the system a basic RISC SOC with open firmware this might be a fun project :P
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to be fair , making a simple os is a fun side project , though I would recommend going with a toy VM rather than actual hardware
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To be fair, a simple operating system project is not that hard to implement.
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Point in case: Ben Eater recently uploaded a video where his "BIOS" consists of two I/O functions and compiles into less than 250 bytes. Double that if you count his port of WOZMON. We can argue later if that constitutes an operating system - I mean, it's not POSIX compliant but it does operate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q6Ujn_zNH8
Edit: watch that space. The venerable MS BASIC is on the way after this.
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