Another month, another Redox progress report. The Rust-based operating system, headed by system76 engineer Jeremy Soller, has made a big move by replacing Redox’ Orbital file manager, text editor and terminal by their COSMIC counterparts, COSMIC Files, COSMIC Editor and COSMIC Terminal, in the default Redox installation. COSMIC is the Rust-based desktop environment system76 is currently developing for their Linux distribution, Pop!_OS.
You really have to start wondering what the long-term goals for Redox really are here. I’m not saying they’re intending to replace Linux with it – that’d be suicide – but the steady progress towards a general purpose operating system is undeniable.
They are saying they intend to replace Linux:
[i]Our Goals
Redox is an attempt to make a complete, fully-functioning, general-purpose operating system with a focus on safety, freedom, reliability, correctness, and pragmatism.
We want to be able to use it, without obstructions, as an alternative to Linux/BSD in our computers.[/i]
https://doc.redox-os.org/book/ch01-01-our-goals.html
I can imagine replacing Linux in like web services – I can easily imaging one day running various node.js or even rust services on some version of this instead of alpine linux. As long as it works – why not?