On 13-03-01 08:37 AM, Tim Ford wrote: > The OCaml-on-Xen OpenMirage (http://openmirage.org/) project is very > interesting to me. The idea is that your OCaml application is compiled > directly into a bootable Xen microkernel image. Rather than running > inside an OS, your OCaml links to a "libOS", a library that provides all > the OS services in terms of Xen hypercalls. > > What are your thoughts regarding whether the same could be accomplished > with Rust? You'd have to reimplement the Rust runtime and many OS > services, though perhaps the work done for OpenMirage could be of some > help there. > > It seems like Rust would be a great language for this.
Seems plausible, but we're a ways still from the runtime functions (memory, scheduling and IO) being pluggable enough to make this easy. I expect it'll be easier to experiment when the current scheduler rewrite finishes, as it's designed to support swapping out at least the event loop (IO and scheduling). -Graydon _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
