Operation Moonshot: Can Claude Rewrite Linux in Rust?

(blog.zolty.systems)

3 points | by voxadam 4 hours ago

2 comments

  • Someone 3 hours ago
    FTA: “Multiple passes needed (initial translation, review feedback, iteration) → ~150M input tokens total

    Output roughly equal to input → ~150M output tokens

    Claude Opus API pricing: $15/M input, $75/M output (as of early 2026)

    Estimated API cost: $13.5M in token costs alone”

    I don’t follow that math. Wouldn’t 150 million input tokens cost 150 × $15 = $2,250 and 150 million output tokens 150 × $75 = $11,250, for a total of $13,500?

  • dheerajmp 4 hours ago
    You should check this - https://www.redox-os.org/. There are some folks who wrote from scratch.

    But not at the size of linux. The linux kernel is so huge mostly because of drivers. Which are mostly supported by the hardware providers. Not sure how easy would it be to convert to rust.