Learn Rust by writing a small OS

Even if you don't want to write a small OS, or don't want to learn rust, this is still an excellent resource for people wanting to learn about low-level OS and hardware details.

Phil-opp's posts were instrumental in getting the boilerplate of my kernel up and running pretty quickly, mostly due to the unusual build config that is required. I've since grown my own sense about it but it always tickles me when I think of a better way to do X, search for X on the cargo or rust issue trackers, find a ticket also looking for that, and more often than not Phill-opp either present or the one requesting it. Hats…

It's the beginning of a kernel. It may expand in the future, but to me, calling it an OS is like building a door and calling it a house. It's inaccurate and it makes it sound greater than it currently is. I on the other hand do not want to make it sound less great of course, but what we call things does matter.

I think these posts will be much more enjoyable in 2020 when we hopefully have a stable compiler. Not a huge fan of switching to nightly to get certain functions. And don't get me started on the cross compile support. While Go ships a single binary that supports many targets, in rust you need to mess with rustup, compile your own libraries and even then it might not work... Can't wait for 2020 to arrive.