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by up2isomorphism6 hours ago |
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upvoteby mbreese6 hours ago|
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Why? Because a user space kernel is a bad idea? Or because of the AI use when writing it?

I’m still trying to figure out exactly what it is.

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upvoteby jmull1 hours ago|
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To me, it's that little effort was put into it, so no commitment has been demonstrated. You wouldn't want to build anything serious on top of it because you'd probably just have to throw it away.

A project picked up casually, for a short time, is likely to be dropped casually, in a short time.

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upvoteby jeroenhd5 hours ago|
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A userspace kernel is already pretty niche. Not many people will get anything serious out of it.

The slop problem is also a challenge to overcome. The project barely existed and has already pivoted in a completely new direction. Who knows when this direction bores the author and we get yet another pivot. Or the author loses interest and we end up with a dead pile of abandoned code like so many other LLM generated projects.

The previous state of the project could've made for an interesting VM runtime (safety of Rust without the issues that come with the lack of ported drivers). For this new direction, I don't think there's a similar sort of demand.

Stating that nobody will take it seriously is probably an exaggeration, but I consider these projects to be toys for the author to play with, I don't see why you would take more interest than going "huh, neat I guess".

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upvoteby up2isomorphism6 hours ago|
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Why should someone spend anytime on this kind of technical piece that is not created by human? Think about what you will get from this, the answer is pretty obvious.
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upvoteby luckystarr5 hours ago|
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No obvious to me, sorry. What will I get from this?
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upvoteby shevy-java5 hours ago|
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Well, one obvious issue is that this is controlled not by humans, whereas the linux kernel is. What if the parent company changes things with regards to the AI here? You may have to pay more suddenly.

You could probably work around this partially by having contracts with people, but these in turn also depend on the AI slop then, so the problem is just shifted.

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upvoteby jaapz3 hours ago|
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Parent company? It's just this one dude's pet project
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upvoteby cannonpalms48 minutes ago|
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It is being created by a human, though. Greg Kurtzer is one of the authors of Rocky Linux. He has the respect of his peers. Perhaps you just aren't one.
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