So is Google fuchsia - it is even capability based. (But Google is not cool here around HN circles, despite their contributions to open source and fostering one of good engineering environments, they aren't cool because they don't shout some Privacy buzzword like Apple.) Also it is not written in rust, which is webshit-favorite-of-the-month.

Redox is still Unix like, it moderately changes the file paradigm. Microkernel Unix clones are not new. They mention Minix as inspiration while there is no mention of L4 which did lot of work in microkernel performance.