My Rust OS will never be finished (and it's a success!)

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Rust on Julia Evans

In November/December last year, I spent 3 weeks working on a toy operating system in Rust. (for more, see Writing an OS in Rust in tiny steps, and more).

I wrote a ton of blog posts about it, and I gave a talk about the process at Mozilla last week (the video). At that talk, a few people asked me if I was going to finish the project. I said no, and here’s why.

There are lots of reasons for working on programming projects. Just a few:

• to end up with useful code
• to learn something
• to explore a new concept (see: Bret Victor’s demos)