puddle

A tiny 32 bit kernel written in Rust, for fun

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A tiny 32 bit kernel written in Rust, for fun

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Observed mentions: 2013-12-20 15:34:06 UTC to 2013-12-23 12:37:05 UTC.

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What Hacker News says

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frik·Dec 23, 2013

A bit offtopic: Julia Evans finished Hacker School, so I wonder if she continues with her Rust based operating system? https://github.com/jvns/puddle featured on HN 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6935763

In Understanding how killall works using strace

jvns·Dec 20, 2013

Yup, all the standard library. If you look at the top of main.rs [1], you'll see #[no_std] which means "don't use the standard library" Instead of the standard library, I use rust-core [2], which provides some of the standard library's features (like the ability to allocate memory). [1] https://github.com/jvns/puddle/blob/master/src/main.rs [2] https://github.com/thestinger/rust-core

In I now have Rust code for executing executables