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navaati
"Meant for learning purpose", this does not pretend to bring anything new/better.
golergka
Wasn't Python and Postgresql intentionally created for learning purposes? I'm not saying that this project is just as important, just pointing out that "learning purposes" is not a good predictor of a useless project.
TomMarius
Yeah, and aren't research projects often meant "for learning purposes" as well? :-)
steve_adams_86
Not to mention all of the professional projects which failed and fell off the radar entirely. It's hard to say what has merits without giving it time.
blattimwind
Python originated as a scripting language for a niche OS.

Postgresql came from adding SQL to postgres (mostly? a research project), while postgres itself was mainly a research project.

eridius
Sqlite was originally a Tcl extension that "escaped into the wild".
archevel
For learning purposes I created quic[0]. I wanted to strip it down to the bare minimum for running something in a "container". I got as far as having it use a preexisting network namespace. The networking part felt like a major piece of work (setting up the network in bash was tedious) so I figured I'd call it a day and leave it as is. Lots of fun and learned a lot about containers/namespaces in the process.

[0] - https://github.com/archevel/quic

colemickens
I was going to say it'd be even more interesting if it were OCI-compliant, but I forgot Oracle already wrote an OCI-compliant container runtime in Rust: https://github.com/oracle/railcar

Though I've never really heard of folks using OCI runtimes other than `runc` and kata/clearcontainers. (edit: I guess Chromium uses `run_oci`)

archrabbit
One thing to note about railcar is that it completely lacks the network stack, but it will probably be my "starting point" if someday I decide to evolve `rabbitc` into something "more serious".