rust-os

I think Rust would be a interesting (probably safer) language to write an os, embeded code in . I asked the question a few months ago in the "lets write a Kernel" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7588205. It takes a while to write a stable OS, because a lot of things that we use in our helpful libs can't be used in Kernel space. I'm thinking of taking some time and trying to help a Rust OS project. http://src3.org/#RHEL6-2.6.32+220.el6/lib/ or for example Linux Kernel "string.h" (with fun ifdef) http://src3.org/#RHEL6-2.6.32+220.el6/include/linux/string.h I'm sure reaching Rust 1.0 will speed things up. Someone posted their Rust kernel https://github.com/lexs/rust-os

Wiki [1] and OSDev [2] both have pretty solid articles if you want to know how to load an ELF into memory. I used both when implementing ELF for my hobby kernel [3] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format [2] http://wiki.osdev.org/ELF_Tutorial [3] https://github.com/lexs/rust-os/blob/master/rost/exec/elf.rs

Go doesn't really work because it needs a runtime (as far as I know). Rust however is quite useable. There's a couple of kernels, including one by me: https://github.com/lexs/rust-os