Come on, I really like Rust but these types of comments are why people like Theo de Raadt don't take the evangelists seriously. You can't take a project like OpenBSD that has existed for more than 20 years, is being used right now to power all kinds of applications around the world on all kinds of architectures and say that Redox, an experimental x86-64 OS, is viable competition. What with the seven applications written for it listed on Wikipedia, including "A simple web browser with basic image support" and "A simple editor that is similar to notepad". I don't know what the driver situation is like but I don't expect to see a lot of support for anything beyond the most basic devices.

In general I think the "why don't you rewrite your project in $languageoftheday" remarks should be dismissed and ignored. Theo is entirely right when he says that if people think it's a good idea then they should spend less time bothering the devs about it and more time actually coding it.

You think Curl or Emacs should be written in Rust? Then do it. Don't bother the devs about it. If it's really better then people will make the switch.

I love this. I think both of you are right, but your perspectives are for different time frames, with one side having an ideal view about a future time frame, while the other thinking about the now. This is the kind of situation that leads to innovation and how projects like Linux or neovim started. It's a natural way to progress. I hope jackpot51 gets pissed off and takes redox to the point where it proves the naysayers wrong, which will take time and effort, and doesn't serve the now.

I really hope that redox will eventually become a competitor to OpenBSD and other flagship OSs, I'd love to work on a Rust OS. That being said I still don't think it makes sense to label it a competitor at this stage though.

If I decided to start practicing Formula One next week that won't automatically make me competition for Lewis Hamilton. Redox has some way to go before people can seriously consider using it over OpenBSD for real world applications.

That is precisely what I am going to do

Are you joking? Are you running large, mission-critical systems in production on Redox already?

I'm sure it will be good enough for that some day, but that day is not now.

Redox is an unproven toy OS compared to some of the more mature and battletested alternatives. And don't think battletested is a metaphore, some of these have been used to operate battlegear.

I feel like you should add a disclosure about being the creator of Redox.

Ouch, that's not a good look at all.