rustybox, an experimental fork written entirely in Rust

Tim Tassonis stuff at decentral.ch
Fri Nov 15 21:08:35 UTC 2019


On 11/14/19 11:00 PM, Samuel Ainsworth wrote:
> Hello BusyBox overlords,
> 
> This week I thought it would be interesting to try porting busybox to 
> Rust with c2rust. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it 
> actually worked. I thought the results might be interesting to the 
> BusyBox team as well. I have no idea if the core team is interested in 
> Rust at all, but I’d be happy to elaborate if there’s interest. Although 
> I did a complete transpile, a more conservative option would be to keep 
> applets written in C, with appletlib/libbb translated to Rust.

Is it already April Fool's day?

Hey, I ported the linux kernel and gcc to rust, wanna try it out?


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