About rXinu
rXinu is an educational kernel written in Rust.
Goals
Primary
- Support an Operating Systems course that teaches students how to build a Rust kernel from scratch.
- Provide students the best opportunity to learn Operating Systems by introducing a language that enforces thread-safe and memory-safe code at compile time and thus improving productivity.
- Create an extensible microkernel that can be used for research purposes.
Secondary
- Inspire students to contribute to an open source project and learn about OSdev beyond the scope of the Operating Systems and Compilers courses.
- Integrate modern tools into the coursework to increase experience with professional development techniques, such as continuous integration, a regression testing framework, static analysis, and performance testing.
- Prove the performance and feasibility of a low level project written in Rust.
- Explore the Rust language and mine the language’s features to make the kernel as stable and scalable as possible.