Vivo Unveils BlueOS, Based on Rust Language

https://sparrowsnews.com/2023/11/01/vivo-unveils-blueos-operating-system/

by sbt567 • 3 years ago

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Beijinger2• 3 years ago

Harvey OS retired, now they do R9, also written in Rust

https://harvey-os.org/2023/04/23/retirement.html

pjmlp• 3 years ago

I am always puzzled why Plan 9 is so looked upon instead of Inferno, where the best ideas from UNIX and Plan 9 were combined with a memory safe userspace language.

sillywalk• 3 years ago

I think that was part of it - you needed(?) to use Limbo to develop Inferno Apps, whereas Plan 9 uses C.

It's odd, the Vita Nuova website looks unchanged for 20+ years, including a reference to an Inferno plugin for Internet Explorer 4+(!). I wonder if Inferno is being used in production somewhere?

I know Plan 9 was/is used on supercomputers [0], and there was something called CellFS for programming the PS3/Cell architecture. [1]

[0] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/blue_gene/

[1] http://ilab.usc.edu/packages/cell-processor/docs/IBM_redbook...

leoedin• 3 years ago

There's a lot of marketing fluff - anyone know what this actually is?

Judging by the specs it runs on, it's an OS for application processors - like the kind in smartphones. They talk a lot about UI features, but not much about the interesting stuff. Is this truly a "new" OS written in Rust? Or is it just a repackaged android with a new GUI and some Rust libraries?

flanked-evergl• 3 years ago

The standout feature of Vivo BlueOS is its utilization of the Rust programming language, marking a global first in building a system framework for an operating system.

Using rust is not a feature.

sudosysgen• 3 years ago

Perhaps not for most applications, but I think it actually is for an OS. Operating systems are pretty tightly tied to the paradigm of their systems programming language, and possible memory-safety guarantees is a strong feature for an OS as well.

kjs3• 3 years ago

History does not seem to agree with you. There were memory safe(er) languages before Rust existed, and OSes written in those languages. Neither became popular.

pornel2• 3 years ago

I wonder what’s the API/ABI of that OS. This is where the language does make a difference.

On most systems the C ABI has been the only ABI for so long that people have forgotten system ABIs are language-specific.

joemelonyeah• 3 years ago

Just following the footsteps of Huawei, forking existing projects, making superficial changes and tacking a new skin on it.

Claiming to be a new OS when it isn't is the modern China equivalent of Sega's "blast processing", it's marketing fluff to lure customers.

tibbydudeza• 3 years ago

HyperOS and also HarmonyOS2 :).

Brian_K_White• 3 years ago

A global first? And Redox OS?

Vivo Unveils BlueOS, Based on Rust Language

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