Thoughts on Rust stdlib and C interfacing

[arcnmx]

@briansmith

I understand that point of view and I think that makes a lot of sense for people. However, I also think it makes sense to start the work on a direct-syscall implementation of the Rust std library now, targeting, say, Linux kernel 4.4 and above (i.e. no polyfills for features missing in earlier kernel versions, at least in the first release). Such an implementation would immediately be useful for some cool embedded projects that are built on top of Linux. If somebody were to start such a project, I'd review and test patches for it and help with the planning. Feel free to ping me: brian@briansmith.org / briansmith (Brian Smith) · GitHub.

This is what Libsystem, or, the great libstd refactor - #11 by arcnmx was partially meant to make possible but no one seemed to have comments on whether the approach was worth pushing forward with or not...