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|    Luke A. Guest to Dan Cross    |
|    Re: Languages and new directions in oper    |
|    02 May 23 14:12:11    |
      From: laguest@archeia.com              On 02/05/2023 02:30, Dan Cross wrote:       > For decades the operating system development landscape has been       > dominated by C; specifically in the kernel space. In so many       > ways, this makes sense, as C was created to build an operating       > system, but it's also become an increasingly hostile language       > for its original purpose (e.g., https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07845       > and https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479; others).       >              It was always a hostile language.              > This begs the question: what other languages are suitable for       > building kernels? Rust seems like an obvious choice, and there              I wrote the bare bones kernel in Ada, osdev.org.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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