All this discussion (hate) on the effort to "rewrite in Rust"...
At the same time these projects are soooo promissing (to me -- it may be purely subjective).
By these projects I mean:
Servo and Verso
Redox OS
System76's COSMIC Desktop's EPOCH
RipGrep
Deno
Zig
tree-sitter
And lots of web dev libs and frameworks: Actix, Leptos, Dioxus...
Currently a web dev stack can run on Redox OS and use significantly less resources than Alpine! (and this stack has not even had the years of tuning Alpine had)
Rewriting things in Rust is a reasonable thing to do. I think the hate is for people who criticize existing software for being written in C on the grounds that hypothetically someone could rewrite them in Rust.
"I rewrote SQLite in Rust" would be praiseworthy (assuming it's true). "Why don't you rewrite SQLite in Rust?" is trolling.
I took a look at COSMIC and it really looks nice. I am not interest in it because it is written in Rust but it simply looks nice and the window management also looks promising. I hope to run it on my main machine soon.
Honestly either should be more than possible to do, although not sure how beneficial. It would certainly be very funny if Zig compiler would be implemented in Rust and, simultaneously, Rust compiler would be written in Zig
zig compiler does lots of things for speed that would push it well into unsafe rust, or unchecked rust (like using u32 index tags in arrays instead of pointers)
At the same time these projects are soooo promissing (to me -- it may be purely subjective).
By these projects I mean:
Servo and Verso
Redox OS
System76's COSMIC Desktop's EPOCH
RipGrep
Deno
Zig
tree-sitter
And lots of web dev libs and frameworks: Actix, Leptos, Dioxus...
Currently a web dev stack can run on Redox OS and use significantly less resources than Alpine! (and this stack has not even had the years of tuning Alpine had)