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Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI

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364 points Klasiaster | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 12:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
1. treeshateorcs ◴[15 Oct 24 21:00 UTC] No.41853067[source]▶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AQ5lpXujGo Asterinas: A safe Rust-based OS kernel for TEE by H. Tian & C. Song (Ant Group & Intel) | OC3 2024
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2. gghh ◴[16 Oct 24 13:28 UTC] No.41858827[source]▶
Exactly. I see elsewhere in this page people comparing this project to Linus Torvalds starting an OS in his dorm room while studying CS. Like these were "young and clueless" devs writing an OS for fun.

From the looks of it, this seems like a serious corporate backed project made by employees of the Ant Group, the chinese fintech giant. A more fair comparison would be with Google's Fuchsia OS (defunct) or Huawei's HarmonyOS. It may succeed, it may fail, but it's nothing like a couple of kids doing a passion project to learn Rust.