I think I'm going to need more coffee to process this. Did I wake up in opposite land? Microsoft actually genuinely have a tutorial up on how to install Linux.
If true, it must be a thin client then. I just can’t imagine they’ll rewrite the kernel in Rust. That would be awesome, but super error prone if they’re going to try to maintain backward compatibility. GUI in Rust is also painful, so I doubt it’s that either.
Don’t quote me on this but i recall seeing something a while back about how a significant part of the windows kernel was already ported to rust. The windows kernel has been fairly decoupled from the UI layer for a while, that was one of the big efforts in the 8.1 and 10 versions: to have a core that xbox, phone, and desktop could all share.
All the rumors for 12/CoreOS are saying it’s going to be in Rust.
If true, it must be a thin client then. I just can’t imagine they’ll rewrite the kernel in Rust. That would be awesome, but super error prone if they’re going to try to maintain backward compatibility. GUI in Rust is also painful, so I doubt it’s that either.
Don’t quote me on this but i recall seeing something a while back about how a significant part of the windows kernel was already ported to rust. The windows kernel has been fairly decoupled from the UI layer for a while, that was one of the big efforts in the 8.1 and 10 versions: to have a core that xbox, phone, and desktop could all share.
Huh, it looks like Windows 11 is including Rust to some degree in the kernel. I wonder how far they’ll take it.