[TUHS] Any UNIX With No C In Userland?
Dan Cross
crossd at gmail.com
Sat Mar 1 12:10:29 AEST 2025
On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> Given that anything that obeys the ABI and has assembler entries to the kernel
> can request services, it seems to me it would be possible to stand up a
> user-land without C being present. Have any UNIXen ever done this after the
> advent of C?
Kind of. u-root is a userland in Go, but is more targeted towards
embedded applications (Ron will correct me if I am mistaken there).
uutils is a Rust reimplementation of most of the GNU coreutils tools,
but not (I don't think) the C library.
- Dan C.
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