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liblinux
Rust2020–2026
matheusmoreira / liblinux

liblinux

Linux system calls in Rust

4Distinct people
22Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4GitHub stars
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Linux system calls in Rust

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 3:30:57 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year22 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-03-26 18:52:45 UTC to 2026-08-19 13:28:30 UTC.

02468102020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> Hardly anything is written against the kernel ABI except glibc itself. I'm working hard to change that. Here's an entire lisp interpreter written in freestanding C using nothing but Linux system calls: https://github.com/lone-lang/lone It has a system-call primitive too, which means it can do anything. Here's a TCP echo server written in lone lisp: https://github.com/lone-lang/lone/blob/master/examples/tcp-e... It works, and you don't need libc. > Like it or not, glibc is the singular entry point for desktop Linux Well I don't like it, and I've made it my mission to fix it. Maybe lisp isn't the answer, Rust is. I've revived my liblinux crate too. https://github.com/matheusmoreira/liblinux I'm going to add system calls to this thing every day until I have every single one. Then I'll use them to make all of my applications. Already have m
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y first project planned: a custom Rust network stack for my QEMU virtual machines so I can firewall them off in userspace without root access. > the Linux platform The linux platform is these system calls. Everything else is userspace. This is exactly what makes it special. https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/linux-system-calls
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