Why is doing an app in RUST such a pain?

[acanton77]

You wrote the OS in Rust, but doing an app in Rust is a major pain, compared to doing it in C. Why is that? Look at all the hoops we have to jump through: https://server-developer-platform.oxidos.io/documentation/tutorial/index.html#_how_to_build_and_run_the_rust_application

[Ghanda]

Hello and thank you for your question.

The issue here is a known issue with Rust’s default linker. We designed a work-around, but we are aware that it is indeed rather tedious, so we do plan to automate it in the future.

Thank you for your feedback and your interest in OxidOS and we hope to have an update for this issue as soon as possible.

[alexandruradovici]

The problem is from LLVM and described here tock/libtock-rs#28.